Friday, January 15, 2010

Hunting Eagles

A few quick snaps from a little drive down in Sanpete. The eagles are out in force this time of year. Such a beautiful bird. I don't do much wildlife photography, shooting mainly people, so it is always fun to do something a bit different. Look at this first guys claws!!!

1/640 sec; ISO 200, F 6.3; 200mm

This bird, wasn't to happy we disturbed him from his perch, warm sunbathing. He flew away with some coaxing, but we hoped he would fly in the right direction (toward the camera, or at least not away). So much for hoping...

1/640 sec; ISO 200, F 6.3; 200mm


One quick hint, shooting in snowy weather can be challenging for a camera to meter. There is so much white with the snow that the exposure can vary dramatically from frame to frame (ussually you end up with shots on the dark side). One quick way to get your exposure pegged, is to meter manually. In this case I set the exposure for the sky.

1/640 sec; ISO 200, F 6.3; 200mm

1/640 sec; ISO 200, F 6.3; 200mm



1/640 sec; ISO 200, F 6.3; 200mm


1/640 sec; ISO 200, F 6.3; 200mm
One more taken through the glass door of my parents back door. These deer are feasting on frozen apples under the apple tree;)


1/640 sec; ISO 200, F 7.1; 200mm

4 comments:

EngineeringNerd said...

Nicely done Nate. What an impressive bird! Thank you for sharing and a good suggestion about metering. I usually shoot snowy scenes in manual as well although I must admit that I just push the exposure until my blinkys are nearly gone. :) I'll try metering to the sky next time!

Nathan Marx said...

Glad to help Rob!

Angie Thompson said...

Nathan - the eagles look fabulous (I was thinking of all sorts of great Hallmark card captions for the eagle's rear ...) I thought the deer looked neat too - how far away from them were you?

Nathan Marx said...

Thanks Angie. We were able to get in pretty close (estimate 3-4 lanes of road away).