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While in Northern California with Gary Rouleau and Arash Hazeghi I had my closest encounter yet with a White-Tailed Kite, a notoriously skittish bird. This one sat on a 4-foot perch for 5 or 10 minutes while we slowly approached. Even though this was the most cooperative WTK I've photographed, I was still glad I was using my 600mm with a 1.4x. WTKs just don't let you get that close.
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Canon 1D Mark IV, 600mm + 1.4x, f/6.3, 1/2000, ISO 800, manual exposure, hand held
Outstanding!!! Probably the best perched shot of this species I've seen as I know from experience about them being skittish. Beautiful colors and detail throughout well done.
Yep, long lenses certainly help, and Im glad you got your shot. I know the feeling stalking a subject for it to run or fly away before you even have a single image. Well exposed here, and the comp works well. Did you shoot vertical Doug?
Doug, definitely an outstanding image. My only encounters with a white-tailed kite is seeing them fly way overhead while I was in Florida
Great stuff...Super BG and exp. Detail and comp are great. Nice one Doug!
This was cropped from horizontal Stuart.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuart Bowie
Appreciate the feedback Doug.
Outstanding Doug
some lens, and use of same, perfect
all I need is a Harpy of the same quality:o
Gorgeous shot. Where in NorCal was this, Doug?
Simply a splendid shot in all regards! :)
Excellent! Love that eye.
Gary.
Doug, beautiful capture and very well exposed.
Nice image Doug, love that eye and the fact that you left the branches in the image prefer it with habitat.
Here in india , the black shouldered kite ( they are a carbon copy of this bird ) allow you quite near . the only issue is that they prefer electric lines to perch !! Beautifully exposed subject . Love the perch as well !! I am only wondering if the eye could have been more reddish ( or are they naturally this colour ) .
I think it depends on the light Rakesh. This was rather late in the day. I suppose I could lighten the iris a little more though.Quote:
Originally Posted by RakeshDhareshwar
Great shot Doug, I love the vertical crop for this image.
Herb
