Kestrel in flight

[Raymond Barlow]

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y281/rammy111111/kestrel5-2.jpg

Hamilton Ontario, Canada
D300 / 200-400 VR
1/2000s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso250

hand held, natural light, 50% of ff, no bait.

Taken last week with the wind and sun at my back.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Eye contact and details look great, maybe a slight boost in contrast?

[Ed Cordes]

I love the head tilt! I agree about the contrast suggestion.

[Dave Mills]

A real beauty...nice capture...no nit piks from me!

[Stu Bowie]

Superb angle of flight, and a lovely comp. Well captured Raymond.

[John Ippolito]

Beautiful flight shot in all respects Raymond. Well captured.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

I Iike the eye contact and composition,agree for the contrast!

[Tony Whitehead]

Love the head tilt and eye contact. May try and extract a bit more blue and darken the BG a little. Excellent capture.

[Juan Aragonés]

Terrific eye contact and pose on this little guy Raymond. I would love to see a more fanned tail ;) and I like the idea of darkening the BG a little bit. I also think that the bird is centered and I sugest to add just a little bit of room at the left and bottom of the frame. Well done!

[christopher galeski]

good shot raymond,thanks.

[Rene' Villela]

Job well done! Thanks!

[Raymond Barlow]

thanks for the nice comments everyone... Tony, thanks for your version and editing. I like your idea, but I feel the sky colour competes with the bird too much., and I also like to leave the colours as natural as possible.

Axel, I did try for a bit more contrast, but I didn't like what it was doing to the image... Juan, I agree about the crop suggestion, I really didn't know what to do with this one., it is a little too 'in your face"!! thanks buddy.