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The sun was over the house and the front yard was well shaded. I looked out the front door and saw something in the bushes I could not identify. I opened the door and stepped onto the front porch to go check the object out when it heard me and jumped back. It was a hawk which was having a late day snack. It jumped around when it saw me and I was afraid it was going to fly away immediately.
I ran into the house to get my camera, D7000 with a 24-70mm lens attached. I thought about switching to a longer lens but thought the bird would be gone by the time I returned. So, I ran back out to the front porch and the hawk was still there only with it's back to me. I focused and took a reading. I had to adjust the ISO because my shutter speed was way to slow with the bird moving.
I took one shot and in the hot summer day with humidity approaching 96 percent, my lens and camera were starting to fog up. The hawk still had it's back to me when suddenly it held it's head up and turned sideways. I figured this was my only opportunity and took one more shot without the benefit of any more changes to the cameras settings. The bird immediately flew off around the side of the house.
I looked at the camera and saw condensation all over every piece of glass and knew I had blown my chance to capture the moment. I pulled the
SD card and went to the computer to confirm my sorry effort. The shot of the back of the bird was not at all satisfactory and the side shot was either affected by my shaking with enthusiasm or the condensation. I had some choice words for myself at my total lack of skill.
On the DX body I shot at about 100mm, the bird was 60 or so feet away, the crop was a very small portion of the photo.
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Last edited on Wed Jul 25th, 2012 15:59 by Squarerigger
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