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Red Kite

Gallery: Regional: UKNPPosted March 20, 2011128 views5 comments

A Red Kite photographed a few years ago at Gigrin Farm Kite feeding station in Mid-Wales, UK.

The camera I had then had a very slow frame rate so I found it better to just take single photos, one pass, one click, one photo, usually ending up in the bin lol.
This is one of the few I kept.

Konica/Minolta Dynax 7D
Sigma 50-500
1/1000th
f6.3
ISO 200
+0.3 stop exposure compensation
500mm
Hand held
I cloned out a numbered tag off the front of one wing, yeah, I know some would call that cheating but I prefer the shot without it, let's call it artistic license

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Mark Davies on March 20, 2011 at 3:54 PM

certainly has impact with the look .

Registered on February 3, 2009, 21 Posts, 327 Comments

Comment posted by Jeroen Stel on March 20, 2011 at 5:36 PM

Fantastic pose and square crop works well for this one.
Will be there mid-april so really looking forward to some more time with these beauties!

greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Registered on November 10, 2003, 366 Posts, 481 Comments

Comment posted by John Robinson on March 20, 2011 at 6:11 PM

Slightly different pose to the norm.Nice one
jr

Registered on March 2, 2008, 535 Posts, 2453 Comments

Comment posted by Paul Rosser on March 21, 2011 at 4:11 PM

Nice head on shot Geoff, I too like the crop here!
Paul Rosser

Registered on October 25, 2009, 61 Posts, 188 Comments

Comment posted by Ian Haskell on March 24, 2011 at 6:19 PM

The head looks nice and sharp...the stare is quite intense too.

Ian

Registered on October 30, 2008, 24 Posts, 673 Comments