Crested Caracara

Gallery: AvianPosted July 19, 2013230 views17 comments

Here's another shot from our trip to Santa Clara Ranch in South Texas earlier this year. Taken from a sunken blind, bait provided.

5D3 500F4, iso 500, tripod

Comments

17 comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on July 19, 2013 at 5:46 PM

Terrific pose with the head-turn and flared tail! Tack-sharp and great perch.
LOVE Santa clara!

Sandy

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Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on July 19, 2013 at 10:28 PM

Super image with wonderful details, light and colors. Both the bird and you presented the tail end nicely

Sharon

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on July 20, 2013 at 12:38 AM

Nice tail spread and alert pose, excellent details.

A Beauty Nate!!!

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on July 20, 2013 at 1:02 AM

Nate,

This is for me as good as it gets, PERFECT

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on July 20, 2013 at 4:24 AM

Cool bird and dito shot ! Excellent pose and perch. Cheers, Hans

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on July 20, 2013 at 8:57 AM

Stunning detail and great pose Nate

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Comment posted by Stephen Kaluski on July 20, 2013 at 9:13 AM

Hi Nate, if you tweak the Blue in HSL it real does make the subject POP and give some oomph. Why 1/8000 SS, think you could have afforded to drop the ISO? Did you try flipping it?

TFS
Steve

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on July 20, 2013 at 9:25 AM

Thanks for your comments. Steve, I was shooting flight shots and the bird came in and landed and gave us some nice poses ruffling it's tail and feathers, the 5D3 is noise free at iso 500, there's no reason to lower it. If I had been trying to change my iso during the sequence I probably would have missed this shot. I much prefer to keep my shutter speed up and capture the action. I did stop down from F5 to F6.3 shortly after this shot.

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Comment posted by May Haga on July 20, 2013 at 9:35 AM

Beautiful capture Nate. Hopefully one day I will get to Santa Clara and get shots at least half as good as this!!
May

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Comment posted by Stephen Kaluski on July 20, 2013 at 11:13 AM

Thanks Nate, ISO800 is standard on my 1Dx's, totally agree on the noise.

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Comment posted by S Govindarajan on July 20, 2013 at 1:02 PM

Excellent profile pose, Nate. Exposure is spot on. Your composition is perfect.

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Comment posted by Bill Leggett on July 20, 2013 at 1:16 PM

Nicely done, Nate. I've never seen any of these, hope to some day.

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Comment posted by Roger Leekam on July 21, 2013 at 6:59 AM

Wonderful shot, Nate! Excellent sharpness & great one legged pose. Looking forward to visiting the Ranch.

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Comment posted by Basri Akcasoy on July 21, 2013 at 3:34 PM

Excellent exposure, congratulation Nate. Now I know I have lots of things to learn. TFS.

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on July 21, 2013 at 11:29 PM

This is a bird I fell in love with when I went out there Nate. Excellent exposure, details, pose, etc.

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Comment posted by Greg Oakley on July 22, 2013 at 3:01 AM

This is superb Nate - great pose and the IQ is out of this world!