{"id":51822,"date":"2018-04-26T04:57:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=51822"},"modified":"2021-04-15T03:54:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T09:54:17","slug":"intermediate-morph-swainsons-hawk-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2018\/04\/26\/intermediate-morph-swainsons-hawk-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermediate Morph Swainson’s Hawk In Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IntermediateIntermediate morph Swainson’s Hawk in flight with mountains in the background – Nikon D500, f9, 1\/640, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
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Last week I was able to photograph several Swainson’s Hawks, some perched and others while in flight and of the flight photos I liked this photo the most because of the mountains in the background. The mountains anchor the photo and provide visual interest even though they are out of focus.<\/p>\n

I did make a few mistakes with my settings while taking this photo though. This was taken right after I arrived at my location, I hadn’t checked my aperture setting and given the lighting conditions I would not normally have been at f9, typically I start off the day at f6.3 or f7.1 and adjust it as I need to during the day. I would have had more shutter speed if I had had the time to make the adjustment and because I didn’t my shutter speed was slow and there is a lot of motion blur in the wing tips of this hawk in this photo.\u00a0 I kind of like the motion blur though so I am not going to sweat the small things.<\/p>\n

I do like the way the Swainson’s Hawk appears to be looking at something high in the sky, the light and how nicely lit the hawk is.<\/p>\n

Hoping to see more of these hawks soon!<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my Swainson\u2019s Hawk photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I was able to photograph several Swainson’s Hawks, some perched and others while in flight and of the flight photos I liked this photo the most because of the mountains in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1148,206,26],"tags":[4004,2663,2069,4200,4052,4033,4169,2386,5045,4069,153,4034],"class_list":["post-51822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-swainson-hawks","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-birds-of-prey","tag-blue-sky","tag-buteo-swainsoni","tag-flight","tag-hawk","tag-hawks","tag-hawks-of-utah","tag-intermediate-morph","tag-mountains","tag-raptors","tag-swainsons-hawk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t