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Really like the Kestrel shot but then I'm partial to active raptors/owls.
Got to spend a bit more time with the local Short Eared Owls and had one perch nearby in front of a nice green shrubbery when the sun was still providing light for two of us to shoot. The sun set and my friend had just left(about 80' away)when a female harrier dove on the owl causing it to make a short hop of a flight closer to me. I dropped the tripod down a notch for more stability and to be at eye level, slowly shifted around some thorn brush and tumbleweed, and started framing my shots. I was using live view and a remote shutter, trying to time the shots between major movements. Probably comical to even consider but I was enjoying watching the owl's reaction to the white crowned sparrows that were chattering and zipping back and forth next to it. An off leash dog was running through the nearby brush, which really had the owl looking. Fortunately the dog veered off and the owl returned to just wanting to MDK some sparrows. The best part was slowly backing away and having the owl stay perched. Anyways, long story and all that but here's the owl looking closely at the approaching dog(which totally blew any framing with that neck stretch, lol).
1DX MK II 600 II w/1.4X III 1/4S : f/6.3 : ISO 1250
Got to spend a bit more time with the local Short Eared Owls and had one perch nearby in front of a nice green shrubbery when the sun was still providing light for two of us to shoot. The sun set and my friend had just left(about 80' away)when a female harrier dove on the owl causing it to make a short hop of a flight closer to me. I dropped the tripod down a notch for more stability and to be at eye level, slowly shifted around some thorn brush and tumbleweed, and started framing my shots. I was using live view and a remote shutter, trying to time the shots between major movements. Probably comical to even consider but I was enjoying watching the owl's reaction to the white crowned sparrows that were chattering and zipping back and forth next to it. An off leash dog was running through the nearby brush, which really had the owl looking. Fortunately the dog veered off and the owl returned to just wanting to MDK some sparrows. The best part was slowly backing away and having the owl stay perched. Anyways, long story and all that but here's the owl looking closely at the approaching dog(which totally blew any framing with that neck stretch, lol).
1DX MK II 600 II w/1.4X III 1/4S : f/6.3 : ISO 1250
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Jack Douglas said:
One more here!
Pictures are pictures but the stories are part of the game (how I made it, how it was...) especially for non pro like me, these stories are actually more important - the good feeling from the good job done is the actual reward anyway!
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ERHP said:Really like the Kestrel shot but then I'm partial to active raptors/owls.
Got to spend a bit more time with the local Short Eared Owls and had one perch nearby in front of a nice green shrubbery when the sun was still providing light for two of us to shoot. The sun set and my friend had just left(about 80' away)when a female harrier dove on the owl causing it to make a short hop of a flight closer to me. I dropped the tripod down a notch for more stability and to be at eye level, slowly shifted around some thorn brush and tumbleweed, and started framing my shots. I was using live view and a remote shutter, trying to time the shots between major movements. Probably comical to even consider but I was enjoying watching the owl's reaction to the white crowned sparrows that were chattering and zipping back and forth next to it. An off leash dog was running through the nearby brush, which really had the owl looking. Fortunately the dog veered off and the owl returned to just wanting to MDK some sparrows. The best part was slowly backing away and having the owl stay perched. Anyways, long story and all that but here's the owl looking closely at the approaching dog(which totally blew any framing with that neck stretch, lol).
1DX MK II 600 II w/1.4X III 1/4S : f/6.3 : ISO 1250
Beautiful!
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Amazing!ERHP said:Really like the Kestrel shot but then I'm partial to active raptors/owls.
Got to spend a bit more time with the local Short Eared Owls and had one perch nearby in front of a nice green shrubbery when the sun was still providing light for two of us to shoot. The sun set and my friend had just left(about 80' away)when a female harrier dove on the owl causing it to make a short hop of a flight closer to me. I dropped the tripod down a notch for more stability and to be at eye level, slowly shifted around some thorn brush and tumbleweed, and started framing my shots. I was using live view and a remote shutter, trying to time the shots between major movements. Probably comical to even consider but I was enjoying watching the owl's reaction to the white crowned sparrows that were chattering and zipping back and forth next to it. An off leash dog was running through the nearby brush, which really had the owl looking. Fortunately the dog veered off and the owl returned to just wanting to MDK some sparrows. The best part was slowly backing away and having the owl stay perched. Anyways, long story and all that but here's the owl looking closely at the approaching dog(which totally blew any framing with that neck stretch, lol).
1DX MK II 600 II w/1.4X III 1/4S : f/6.3 : ISO 1250
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bjd said:
Your Heron is shy for being captured by such an excellent photographer
(with such a long 'big white'...)Great shot Brian, I like that bit of humour in an already amazing picture!
Wiebe.
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