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<blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 724307" data-attributes="member: 13196"><p><span style="font-size: 12px">This hawk I've photographed several times doesn't appear to be afraid of me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">In the first image, the hawk was initially perched on a wire a little further away but spotted something 20-25 feet away from me. It flew down there so I took its pic from where I was standing. I was too close to fit it in the frame, and since this is a 300mm prime with a 1.4x teleconverter, I couldn't zoom to show more.</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]329785[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">This second image was cropped only slightly to center the hawk better. All the rest of the images are with a 300mm prime and 1.7x teleconverter (so equivalent to 500mm focal length).</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]329786[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">The third image is a screen shot of the NEF showing the original composition of the above image. I didn't have to crop much at all.</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]329788[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">And the fourth image wasn't cropped at all. I had a row of bushes directly behind me with a fence behind the bushes so no way to move backwards. The hawk already had its prey and stayed put while eating.</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]329787[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">When it finished, it hopped to a different branch but didn't fly away. I moved and took the following pic which is cropped from a horizontal to a vertical.</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]329789[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">So in my case with this particular hawk, it's just luck. @<a href="https://nikonites.com/member-16783-wev.html" target="_blank">wev</a> might be able to shed light on how he gets so close to his birds. He has amazing images that are sharp and exquisite. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">During the summer I photographed a Green Heron. Even that bird wasn't afraid, but for those images, since the teleconverter was only 1.4x (compared to 1.7x for most of these hawk photos), I did crop some of them. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Over the weekend I spotted another Blue Heron. Just as I was parking the car, it flew off. And here I thought I had parked far enough away. So just luck for me. Not sure about anyone else. Quite frankly I'm surprised I was able to stand close enough to fill the frame with these.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hark, post: 724307, member: 13196"] [SIZE=3]This hawk I've photographed several times doesn't appear to be afraid of me. In the first image, the hawk was initially perched on a wire a little further away but spotted something 20-25 feet away from me. It flew down there so I took its pic from where I was standing. I was too close to fit it in the frame, and since this is a 300mm prime with a 1.4x teleconverter, I couldn't zoom to show more.[/SIZE] [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]329785._xfImport[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]This second image was cropped only slightly to center the hawk better. All the rest of the images are with a 300mm prime and 1.7x teleconverter (so equivalent to 500mm focal length).[/SIZE] [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]329786._xfImport[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]The third image is a screen shot of the NEF showing the original composition of the above image. I didn't have to crop much at all.[/SIZE] [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]329788._xfImport[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]And the fourth image wasn't cropped at all. I had a row of bushes directly behind me with a fence behind the bushes so no way to move backwards. The hawk already had its prey and stayed put while eating.[/SIZE] [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]329787._xfImport[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]When it finished, it hopped to a different branch but didn't fly away. I moved and took the following pic which is cropped from a horizontal to a vertical.[/SIZE] [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]329789._xfImport[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]So in my case with this particular hawk, it's just luck. @[URL="https://nikonites.com/member-16783-wev.html"]wev[/URL] might be able to shed light on how he gets so close to his birds. He has amazing images that are sharp and exquisite. During the summer I photographed a Green Heron. Even that bird wasn't afraid, but for those images, since the teleconverter was only 1.4x (compared to 1.7x for most of these hawk photos), I did crop some of them. Over the weekend I spotted another Blue Heron. Just as I was parking the car, it flew off. And here I thought I had parked far enough away. So just luck for me. Not sure about anyone else. Quite frankly I'm surprised I was able to stand close enough to fill the frame with these.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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