Red Tail Hawk
Jul, 2013Views
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VTPhotographer2018
July 01, 2013
The nobility of this bird is breathtaking!!! Keep up the great work!
Krishna_Kumar
August 01, 2013
Great shot! Beautifully composed, love the detail. Congrats on being featured!
akhtarkhan
August 01, 2013
Brilliant close u, nice detail, beautiful Red Tail Hawk, wonderful D O F......cool capture. Congrats on the feature.
DigitalDawn
August 01, 2013
Beautiful portrait of this lovely bird, congrats on a well deserved feature.
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Coomanator
August 01, 2013
What an amazing capture. Focus is dead on and the DOF is perfect to bring the focus in to that magnificent eye. Congratulations on the "Feature". Added to my favorites.
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djensen
August 01, 2013
Awesome work, with gorgeous colors and great detail! Congrats on the feature!
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BrianBasson
August 01, 2013
Congratulations on your feature! This is a stunning shot with excellent eye focus (catchlight). Well done. Brian :-)
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PhoenixRisingPhotography
August 06, 2013
I adore red tailed hawks and this is a brilliant, beautiful image that depicts their power and energy!
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Behind The Lens
Location
Bays Mountain Park, Kingsport, TNTime
About 2pm. Not a great time generally, but it was winter and overcast.Lighting
Natural lighting, probably overcast and there was a light dusting of snow on the ground, so that helped lighting a bit.Equipment
Canon 40D with a 70-200 f/4 IS L lens. It was handheld at 1/160s, f/4 and ISO 100.Inspiration
They were moving her from the raptor building "on glove" back to her pen. They weigh and check them out to make sure they are healthy, clean their cages, and educate the public about the birds while walking them to and from that building. (they are all non-releasable as they have been injured in one way or another) So I came across them talking about 'Lily', so I took the chance to get some good portraits. This shot is now used on a sign there at the raptor area in the park!Editing
Just basic tweaks in Lightroom. Nothing special.In my camera bag
Canon 7D, 24-105 f/4, the 70-200 and maybe the 10-22 EF-S if I'm prepared for landscape. More likely nowadays, I'll have the Olympus OM-D EM-5, with the Olympus 12-40 f2.8, the 40-150 and 100-300 and maybe swap one out for the Oly 60mm f/2.8 Macro.Feedback
Use a long "portrait" lens of some sort. Hope you have access to someplace awesome like Bays Mountain Park. Keep enough depth of field to get more than just a sliver of focus.
