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Great Horned Owl

A Great-horned Owl soaring over the Sonoran Desert.

A Great-horned Owl soaring over the Sonoran Desert.
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NIKON D7100

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Aperture f/10 ISO 640 Shutter 1/1600 Focal Length 1300/10

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Feb, 2016

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Behind The Lens

Location

The photo was taken at the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum, Tucson AZ. Raptor show.

Time

Approximately 10:30

Lighting

Lighting is always a challenge. Sometimes it is perfect and the other 90% it's not. Just happened to be at the right place, at the right time with the right light.

Equipment

Hand held a Nikon D7100 with a 55-300mm lens.

Inspiration

As a maturing nature photographer, I knew the ASDM raptor show would showcase a few birds. What better place to learn than an environment like that.

Editing

Yes, but only a little auto enhance to capture the true colors my setting saw.

In my camera bag

Now a days, I have Nikon D810 with a Nikon 200-500mm lens and a 1.4 teleconverter. I still have the D7100 with an 18-55mm and 55-300 lens. A mono pod and of course quite a few memory disks just in case.

Feedback

Have fun, think of the aspect of the light, be patient, stay positive because you will delete 1000's before you find 1 that pops and inspire people in some way through your photos.

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