Red Kite comes to call

[Richard Unsworth]

:S3:

One of the locals captured from the back door! These have been rarely seen over the last month but made a showing today in stormy weather, which they seem to prefer. Just about got the sun behind before he turned away down the valley into the wind.

7D 100-400 HH F5.6 1/800 ME ISO 400

Set black and white points, NR and sharped SS

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Richard, I feel you have exposed the underwings nicely, especially looking up to the sky. Lots of colours to look at, good eye contact, and your vertical comp works well.

[Richard Unsworth]

Thanks Stuart, hopefully many more to come:S3:

[Karl Egressy]

Striking BIF iamage of this good looking raptor, Richard. Excellent flight pose, good details and nice eye contact.

[PhilCook]

Amazing under body detail coming through in this, sharp and timed nicely, sits in vertical frame nicely as well

[Jonathan Ashton]

Very well lit and good exposure, being a little hypercritical the very edges of the tail and to a lesser degree the wings and flank show signs of burn out, maybe this could be corrected?? Depending upon your stand point you may wish to consider making the sky just a little more blue??

[Loi Nguyen]

Incredible details of the underwing, very beautiful image. Good eye contact.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

What a beautiful set of wings and you captured the detail and colors well. Light looks a little harsh but you handled it well

[Satish Ranadive]

Great flight pose with symmetrical wing position,you have captured.Wonderful colors,lights and details.Very nicely composed.
Love the frame.

Regards,
Satish.

[Richard Unsworth]

Reposting having processed differently, no adjustments to exp/s&h, just NR to BG, image has not been sharpened
What comments?

[Jonathan Ashton]

I prefer it, the highlights are better.

[Richard Unsworth]

Good cos I did it just for you:S3:

[Jonathan Ashton]

Good cos I did it just for you:S3:

Thanks Rich........Now it needs a little sharpening!:S3:

[Richard Unsworth]

Lol, will do