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Sharp Shinned Hawk
« on: September 28, 2011, 03:52:00 PM »
 Stumbled into this guy sitting with a Northern Harrier last weekend.
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Re: Sharp Shinned Hawk
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2011, 05:20:12 PM »
Did you crank the saturation on him?  I've never seen one so brightly colored.
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Re: Sharp Shinned Hawk
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2011, 05:21:46 PM »
Beautiful bird!
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Re: Sharp Shinned Hawk
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2011, 05:30:25 PM »
Awesome photo!
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Re: Sharp Shinned Hawk
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2011, 06:58:00 PM »
 :yeah:
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Re: Sharp Shinned Hawk
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2011, 08:15:43 PM »
 Doug, slightly over-exposed, saturation is only a plus 2. The setting sun I think added a little hue.
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Re: Sharp Shinned Hawk
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2011, 09:01:59 PM »
Wow, that is awesome looking.
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Re: Sharp Shinned Hawk
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2011, 08:26:10 AM »
beautiful pic man!
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Re: Sharp Shinned Hawk
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2011, 12:39:51 PM »
 Thank you all for the comments.
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Re: Sharp Shinned Hawk
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2011, 04:24:14 PM »
Very nice.  How close were you to him?
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Re: Sharp Shinned Hawk
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2011, 06:09:24 PM »
No doubt! Every sharp shin I see is kinda drab...then again, I might be getting them mixed up with a coopers...??? Great PIc! Beautiful Bird!
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Re: Sharp Shinned Hawk
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2011, 08:22:00 PM »
Very cool looking bird.
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Re: Sharp Shinned Hawk
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2011, 08:35:28 PM »
Quote from: ivarhusa on September 29, 2011, 04:24:14 PM
Very nice.  How close were you to him?

  In the hawk photo I was at approximately 35' @ 500mm. I don't know why but I seem to have the luck lately. I saw another one today at about 45' and didn't have the camera. Then I came home and had the rarest of all birds in my back yard, a Say's Phoebe. I don't believe there has ever been one recorded in King County in September.
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Re: Sharp Shinned Hawk
« Reply #13 on: September 30, 2011, 08:41:36 AM »
Quote from: Hornseeker on September 29, 2011, 06:09:24 PM
No doubt! Every sharp shin I see is kinda drab...then again, I might be getting them mixed up with a coopers...??? Great PIc! Beautiful Bird!

 Best way to tell the difference between the males, other than the Cooper's is larger is the contrast on the crown. The Cooper's has a nearly jet-black crown, Sharp Shinned is more a dark-grey on the crown.
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Re: Sharp Shinned Hawk
« Reply #14 on: September 30, 2011, 04:01:45 PM »
Dman,

I admire your knowledge of birds.  I am just coming into the game, this last couple of years.  I set my goal to collect identifiable pictures of 100 different bird species, and am up to 66. Just got an L-glass lens (100-400) that takes away any excuse I might have for grainy or blurry pictures.

Care to offer (anyone?) some tips for good bird photography?  I am stewing now, over the tradeoffs between ISO an aperture. Always use largest aperture and lowest practical ISO?

Can you get really crisp images with ISOs as high as 400 to 1600 (Canon)?

With image stabilization, do you still hold out for shutterspeeds faster than the inverse of the focal length? I should think not, but do you TRUST it for two stops?

Ivar
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