Swallow (Hirundo rustica)

[Jonathan Ashton]

Hand held, large crop.
Olympus EM1X, ISO 800 +0.7 1/3200 sec f5.6 840mm equiv focal length

ACR/TDN/PSCC

[gail bisson]

I love the pen mouth and the tail flare. Perfectly centered catchlight.
Nice and sharp.
The bird looks pretty good for a big crop but the BG sky seems to have a mottled look to it. Some smudges about 1 inch to the left of birds' right wing,
Gail

[annmpacheco]

Hi Jon,
Very nice capture, love the open mouth and wings. Still impressive despite being a large crop.

[kevin Hice]

Nice capture Jonathan love that open mouth.And as mentioned the tail flare is nice. I do see what Gail is saying about the background,blues have something going on. TFS Thanks for your comments yesterday.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Whoops - the smudge - I am sorry I should have mentioned I removed a heavyweight electric cable - that was careless cloning/content aware on my behalf.

[David Roach]

Love the pose and framing. TFS

[arash_hazeghi]

I like the open beak and wing position, large crop shows in IQ but for me the main issue is the harsh shadows, sky can use NR looks very noisy.

TFS