Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: rabanito on November 11, 2020, 04:18:28 pm
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Just to say hello, friends! :D
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Could be a tarantula hawk. They tend to be quite large.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk
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HAHAHAHA! '
Where I live Tarantula Hawks don't carry those claws! ;)
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Nice, I like the "bird in the landscape" even if it's a tiny element of the image.
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Thank you Francois. I see it that way too :)
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Maybe it's just a speck on your sensor? It would be easy to edit it out in PS.
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Maybe it's just a speck on your sensor? It would be easy to edit it out in PS.
or change it to a pair of ducks.
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I've tried doing bird-in-flight photography with a long telephoto and it's not easy. Maybe I've been using the wrong lens.
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I like the catch-light on the eye.
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I've tried doing bird-in-flight photography with a long telephoto and it's not easy. Maybe I've been using the wrong lens.
This was a 70mm.
BIF is IMHO something entierly different from landscape.
Autofocus, knowledege about the animals, short SS's, tracking, fast bursts and a lot of luck therewith etc.
That hawk hovering with a 600mm would workbut fast moving birds...
Again just MHO
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Hahaha.
I like your humor, all of you :D
As for the catchlight, I admit to having helped a little with PS.
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and i thought the background hills (mountain ? ) was the hawk coming over the horizon .... :(
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Taking into account the 70mm lens focal length, the distance between the bird and the camera, and assumed bird flight path straight towards you, we can assume it was a male hawk. They are typically half a meter long with a wingspan of up to one meter. That corresponds to about 0.6mm dot on my screen. A female hawk is usually larger - up to 0.9mm on the screen of the same size. In a case that the hawk was flying across your field of view, then you were lucky to get yourself a nice profile shot of a fully grown female hawk which can grow to 65cm in length with a wingspan up to almost 1.5m.
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Thanks Les.
Actually it is an European Kestrel. I thought anybody would notice because of its colour and the dotted pattern of the plumage . Ha-ha ;)
I was approaching a group of perched starlings, hoping for them to fly some interesting patterns. They didn't. "Social distancing", I guess :(
The kestrel was hovering, looking for prey. I took the picture and it was gone. Just disappeared. They attain very high speeds when diving.
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Kestrels are beautiful birds but they are difficult to photograph at a closer range. In Ontario, we don't have many kestrels left, mainly due to disappearing grasslands.
We do have here quite a few red tailed hawks and some ospreys, and in northern Ontario also some bald and golden eagles.
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For these kind of photos it is good to have animal Eye AF...
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For these kind of photos it is good to have animal Eye AF...
I'm usually using "Background AF" ??? :(
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