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Thank you Dave, Chris and Rich.
Now, for those that might be interested in giving falconry raptors in flight a shot for the first time, let me tell you about a couple of rub points:
(1) The birds' legs are provisioned with anklets, and some falconers leave jessies (tie ribbons) hanging from the anklets. Fortunately, CRC do not have jessies on their birds in flight. Now, those anklets are often surprisingly massive, they almost look as if they are meant to hold down a gorilla, and depending on the shot perspective and wing attitude, they show a lot, and they look ugly to my eye.
That really means about 60-70 % of my shots I discard off the bat because I am not inclined to do that sort of precision cloning on a large scale. Again, we are not trying to turn a "falconry bird" picture into a "wild bird" picture, therefore trying not to show those anklets is a matter of aesthetics only. Granted, some people may not find the sight of those anklets distracting, and that is cool too.
(2) If the session price per person is reasonably low, the falconer has to book a goodly number of people in order to make some money to feed their families as well as birds. Typically we are talking about 6-10 photographers participating in the session. The more the merrier right ? Well, the difficulty is that with large groups, people unwittingly begin to obstruct one another's view of flying birds.
Hell, I have seen even some "experts" position themselves on the wrong side of the bird, relative to the light source, which placed them smack into my background bokeh. Some folks wanna shoot with a fisheye lens, which means that they will end up in everybody's bird shots, etc. etc.
Edited on Dec 02, 2015 at 05:22 PM · View previous versions
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