Sunday, 3 October 2010

CORNISH BIRDS OF PREY 2 (THE POWER OF FLIGHT).

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.






Posted by Monts at 09:03
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9 comments:

  1. ADRIAN3 October 2010 at 10:48

    An Excellent series of shots. You did the job perfectly.

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  2. JRandSue3 October 2010 at 17:23

    Wow, grand job,love all flight shots Monty.
    One thing i would love to do,fantastic collection.
    John.

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  3. Bob Bushell3 October 2010 at 18:37

    Your flying shots are really good, in fact, they are beautiful.

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  4. Bill S.4 October 2010 at 03:56

    Great pictures. I love raptors in flight.

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  5. Claudia4 October 2010 at 10:10

    Great selection of motion capture, Monts.

    I hope you have a week full of good health.

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  6. Sciarada5 October 2010 at 16:03

    Ciao Monts, I think you are fully able to make the idea, the fury is given off magnificently by these beautiful your pictures!

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  7. ShySongbird5 October 2010 at 18:22

    Great 'action' shots, Monty and I loved the photos in part one also. The Pale Scops Owl looked quite a character! It sounds like you had a great day out, what a nice retirement present.

    Thank you very much for the very creative comment you left on my blog :)

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  8. Sunny7 October 2010 at 16:41

    Breathtaking! I could really feel the movement in your pictures.
    ☼ Sunny

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  9. FAB8 October 2010 at 23:14

    Excellent Monty. You definitely achieved the power of the Harris. FAB.

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