Monday, January 11, 2010

Red-tailed Hawk and Barred Owl photos

Just returned from a short trip to eastern Ontario with my girlfriend. My aspirations were to photograph raptors; she was keen to check out the cross-country ski trails. There wasn't much snow on the trails, but the temperature was certainly 'wintery' at -19C on Saturday morning! The raptors - a Red-tailed Hawk and Barred Owl - co-operated beautifully! It was a fantastic weekend overall and as a bonus I had a chance to  catch up with some photo buddies, as well as meeting some other great bird photographers.

Here's a couple of initial photos:

Photo 1: Red-tailed Hawk
Canon EOS 1Ds mark III; 500mm f/4 IS lens; ISO 800; 1/640s @ f/4

















Photo 2: Barred Owl
Canon EOS 1Ds mark III; 500mm f/4 IS lens; ISO 400; 1/500s at f/5.6

5 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:06 PM

    Looove the barred owl!

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  2. Carolyn9:41 AM

    Congratulations on the girlfriend - guess there are perks to being stationary for a time. :)

    Beautiful lighting on those birds.

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  3. Really impressive work, guess you had to hide yourself very well to shoot this kind ok photo.
    I hope I would be able to do something like this a day.

    Thanks a lot

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  4. Stephen Coyle8:54 AM

    Ethan, fantastic shots! How do you manage to get so close? Even with the 500mm you still had to be pretty close. Always impressed.

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  5. Thanks for the kind words, everyone!
    Stephen, these birds are in a spot where many photographers have been feeding them - and thus they have become quite tame. I made a 5hr trip specifically for those two birds.
    cheers,
    Ethan

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