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Gray-headed Kite (Leptodon cayanensis)
Gray-headed Kite (Leptodon cayanensis)
Photo description
This raptor has broad bluntly rounded wings with a long accipiter-like tail and a rather small pale gray head. The flight feathers are a bold white coarsely barred black. From Trinidad. f/7.1, iso 800, exp comp plus 2.0, 1/640.
Uploaded Mar 12, 2006 | Flickr URL
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Gray-headed Kite Trinidad Leptodon cayanensis Acciptridae Falconiformes
7 comments have been posted about this photo

Great! So, for shots looking up with a lot of sky you shoot +EV? I've been burned by doing the opposite! But I'm always weary of over-exposing and clipping the highlights... I've also tried spot metering and center-weighted.

Do you have any suggestions for getting good exposures of birds in flight like this? +EV, anything else? Thanks, Jon
Posted on Mar 22, 2006
Thanks much Jon! It seems like I do often use +EV shooting into the sky often even at +2. I try to take a quick look at my screen to get a feel if the exposure is right if I have time. Probably also nice to get a decent shutter speed. Esp for birds actively flying as opposed to soaring. Unfortunately this often means upping the iso. Kent
Posted on Mar 22, 2006
Cool, it's pretty nice out today, so maybe I will get to see my buddies outside work....
Red-Shouldered Hawk Family in MD
Posted on Mar 22, 2006
Nice composite!
Posted on Mar 22, 2006
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called A Field Guide To The Raptors Of The World, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted on May 29, 2007
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The Friends Of Worldbirds, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Awesome super detail
Posted on Jul 8, 2007
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Posted on Jul 24, 2007
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