Sky Pilot

[Mike Lentz]

How high can you fly? Okay, its an oldie, but a goodie! (song) :)
This guy was ramping it up and giving me a variety of flight shots on a semi cloudy day last weekend.

http://www.pbase.com/mike_lentz/image/108265938.jpg

Nikon D300 ~ Nikkor 300mm F/2.8 w Nikon 1.4x TC
ISO 400 ~ F/5.6 ~ 1/4000 sec ~ +2/3 EV ~ Tripod

[Doug Brown]

Looks good Mike! I like the pose; good eye contact, underwing detail, and a nice look at the talons. Sharpness is good. And I like the clouds in the sky. Nice framing too.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Mike,
I love the pose. Sharp, nice eye contact and lovely wing spread. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Cool pose, eye contact and BG. I would sharpen body, talons and wings a bit more.

[Tony Whitehead]

Excellent pose, BG superb. Well done.

[Fabs Forns]

Terrific pose, Mike, love the clouds!!!

[Art Kornienko]

Terrific angle, very powerful, sky looks great, agree with Axel about sharpening a bit, but I guess the cloudy day didn't help with the detail. Beautiful angle again, great crop.

[William Currie]

nice shot wandering how big the crop was

[Robert Amoruso]

The wing and head angle makes the image. Agree a bit more sharpening is needed.

[Mike Lentz]

Good idea, I'll run some sharpening on it. The crop was about 25% off the original image.
Thanks for the feedback gang!

[Ramon M. Casares]

I envy you guys that can work with these species!!!! Love the pose, light, BG and colurs! Congratulatons!

[Juan Aragonés]

Superb job Mike. terrific light and pose. Big congratulations for a fine capture :-)