fly boy

[stuart wanuck]

nikon d 600 iso 800
m 1/1600 @ 6
500 mm lens severe crop


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[Randy Stout]

Stuart:

NIce wing spread, leg/foot position. Neat that the nesting material is on the backside of his head. Like the overall comp.

The IQ is suffering a bit from the crop. Might try a version cropped just slightly looser to see how the IQ improves.


Cheers

Randy

[Jonathan Ashton]

Love it! Great pose and super exposure, I agree you could reduce the crop and increase the quality, running a fairly heavy NR on the background would soften it just a little more - may be worth considering.

[Dennis Zaebst]

Agree with softening the BG - perhaps another round of luminance smoothing. Otherwise, great action and behavior depicted.