Lyall Bouchard
03-06-2008, 09:00 PM
I've been admiring the excellent photos on this site, and would like to add my humble contribution.
I found this red tailed hawk in a flooded farmer's field. I was able to get reasonably close due to the fact that he was concentrating on his dinner. Typically, in this area, raptors take flight as soon as you get in the same county. In any case, I was able to get several photos that I like, including some as he was eating, but the pose on this one appeals to me the most. I tend to prefer photos that show some of the subject's environment.
This was shot with my 30D, 100-400 lens at 400 mm, ISO 400, 1/1000 sec at F6.3. This was cropped to a vertical format from horizontal, as I decided after the fact that too much of the dead grasses detracted from the photo.
Hope some of you enjoy this one!
I found this red tailed hawk in a flooded farmer's field. I was able to get reasonably close due to the fact that he was concentrating on his dinner. Typically, in this area, raptors take flight as soon as you get in the same county. In any case, I was able to get several photos that I like, including some as he was eating, but the pose on this one appeals to me the most. I tend to prefer photos that show some of the subject's environment.
This was shot with my 30D, 100-400 lens at 400 mm, ISO 400, 1/1000 sec at F6.3. This was cropped to a vertical format from horizontal, as I decided after the fact that too much of the dead grasses detracted from the photo.
Hope some of you enjoy this one!