Immature White-tailed Hawk


Posted by Gene Gwin on Sat Mar 31, 2018 8:17 am

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Photo taken at Laguna Seca Ranch in South Texas February 24, 2018,

Nikon D850, Nikon 300mm f/2.8 lens, Nikon 1.4 TC, 1/4000 sec at f/8.0, ISO 1000.

One of the first photos I took with the 850 and was still getting familiar.  Taking this image again, I would have lowered the shutter speed to allow a lower ISO to get better detail.  Don't get me wrong, the detail is still pretty good.  While playing with ISO, I determined that 1000 is the highest ISO I will use on the 850, unless something extraordinary comes out.

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by Mako_Elite on Sat Mar 31, 2018 9:01 am
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Gene Gwin wrote:
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Photo taken at Laguna Seca Ranch in South Texas February 24, 2018,

Nikon D850, Nikon 300mm f/2.8 lens, Nikon 1.4 TC, 1/4000 sec at f/8.0, ISO 1000.

One of the first photos I took with the 850 and was still getting familiar.  Taking this image again, I would have lowered the shutter speed to allow a lower ISO to get better detail.  Don't get me wrong, the detail is still pretty good.  While playing with ISO, I determined that 1000 is the highest ISO I will use on the 850, unless something extraordinary comes out.
Very nice banking shot Gene!. Not an easy shot to pull out in bright sun against the sky. Interesting that ISO-1000 is cut-off point for you on D850, but it doesn't surprise me. There is trade-off with high pixel density count sensors. Smaller Photosites (pixels) can only gather so much light, but gives you better cropping capability. I personally prefer sensors with pixel pitch  5 microns or larger. D850 has pixel pitch 4.3 microns.

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by mlgray12 on Sat Mar 31, 2018 9:23 am
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I find I can push the D850 to 3200 ISO even use 6400 in really bad light - especially if you don't have to crop - 47 MP image has so much resolution you can really clean up noise and shooting in the cloud  and rain forest with most of sun gone - it is more a necessity. My last two posts were at ISO 1250 1/20ec @ f/5 - shot as vertical almost no crop on width - have to use higher f stops being so close to bird for DOF - other one at 1600 - also vertical with very little crop 1'60 sec @ f/5.6

Nice banking pose of molting hawk
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by Jeff Munoz on Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:57 am
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Fantastic turning around shot Gene, the details on the primary feathers is amazing!!!
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by Juan E. Bahamon on Sat Mar 31, 2018 1:59 pm
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Very nice vertical take, so sharp and well exposed, the look of the eagle is penetrating. Congratulations.
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by Ron Day on Sat Mar 31, 2018 1:59 pm
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Gene, beautiful framing of this vertical banking shot, and the detail looks good to me. Nice work!
 

by Carol Clarke on Sat Mar 31, 2018 6:36 pm
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Ron Day wrote:Gene, beautiful framing of this vertical banking shot, and the detail looks good to me. Nice work!
Certainly can't fault the pose or detail Gene!

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