These guys went at it for a few minutes. Quite action, and so much fun to photograph. Most of the frames were junk of course for a variety of reasons, but a few stand-out images were to be had after all. The slope is natural - they were actually tumbling down it as they fought!
Canon R6 + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/800s., f/5.6, ISO 3200, natural light, handheld, cropped for composition, some of the more distracting elements ion the dirty snow removed via clone or spot removal.
Very cool action.
Not an easy exposure sitiuation but it looks great.
I have a feeling you were hoping for a frame where eyes were visible on both birds.
My only nit is that the head of the left hand bird gets lost in the melee.
A very fun frame!
You gotta love mirrorless AF and frame rate :). Snow or sand? Looks like sand to me ...
with love, artie
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