For the second post of my visit to the Cornish Bird Of Prey Centre I want to concentrate on the flying display. Now I know a lot of you will look at these images and say they are blurred, but this is what I intended to achieve. I have hundreds of Raptor images of pin sharp birds just stuck in the sky, what I wanted to show was the raw power and aggression of these birds in hunting mode. The only birds which gave me what I was after were the two Harris Hawks, being larger than the others and slightly slower. The American Kestrel was to small, and the Peregrine was to fast and I have plenty of blurred shots of these to prove it. So I kept the ISO setting down to 100 and the shutter speed between 1/300 - 1/400s.
So when looking at the first image of the Peregrine and then the others I hope you will get a feeling of what I was trying to portray.
My own personal opinion these are some of the best shots of the day.
HARRIS HAWK.
HARRIS HAWK.
HARRIS HAWK.
HARRIS HAWK.
HARRIS HAWK.
Being sharper does not have the same effect.
PEREGRINE x SAKER FALCON.
PEREGRINE x SAKER FALCON.
The only shot I got in full speed.
