On Christmas Day, I came across this Buteo jamaicensis sitting on a fence post. After creating a few images of it on the post, the bird took off and as it flew past me. I was then able to acquire this photograph. The image was made with a Canon Digital Rebel and a Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM at full zoom with Mode 1 stabilization on.
The sun was lowering in the west (behind me) and about three hours from setting. The cloud cover was about 80 percent with the west being clear. I set the camera to Av at f/6.3 which gave me a shutter speed of 1/1000 second. I used One Shot autofocus on the center sensor only (I did upload a hacked bios shortly after the warranty expired on my camera), panning with the bird as it flew by.
The crop is approximate 60 percent of the original 6 megapixel image.
Dark Morph Red-tailed Hawk
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