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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Chris Calohan on February 23, 2015, 05:37:08 pm

Title: Cooper's Hawk
Post by: Chris Calohan on February 23, 2015, 05:37:08 pm

They'll let you get just so close... then, whoosh, they're gone.

Title: Re: Cooper's Hawk
Post by: KMRennie on February 23, 2015, 07:01:12 pm

I really like the 2nd one but the background looks very strange, is this just panning?
Ken

Title: Re: Cooper's Hawk
Post by: Chris Calohan on February 23, 2015, 08:39:51 pm

I was shooting on a tight pan at 600mm. He was zipping through a heavily wooded area. A funky BG was inevitible.

Title: Re: Cooper's Hawk
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on February 24, 2015, 03:49:12 am

I like #2 but would get rid of the tree.

Title: Re: Cooper's Hawk
Post by: Chris Calohan on February 24, 2015, 09:59:20 am

No Tree. Agreed it helps the shot.

Title: Re: Cooper's Hawk
Post by: SangRaal on February 25, 2015, 03:25:15 pm

 I like both pics your crop in #2 is an improvement. I think you could crop #1 differently to improve that pic as well.  The way that Raptors contract and explode off perches is so dynamic.

Title: Re: Cooper's Hawk
Post by: PeterAit on February 25, 2015, 04:23:05 pm

Devilishly difficult birds to photograph. We have one hanging around the area, but it is very shy. I see it sitting in a distant tree now and then but I would need a 10,000 mm lens to get a decent shot. We can tell when it is around because the usual crowd of songbirds at the feeders vanishes.

Title: Re: Cooper's Hawk
Post by: SanderKikkert on February 26, 2015, 04:03:33 am

The cropping certainly helped #2. And without the tree the dynamic (I wouldn't go as far as calling it nervous) background versus the hawk so well frozen by good pan and shutterspeed actually adds to the image I think. I'm very impressed by the beautiful red/maroon colour of its eye as well.

Nice one Chris, Cheers, Sander