A Good-Looking Harrier

[Doug Brown]

From my recent Utah trip, here's a photo of a relatively close encounter with a female Northern Harrier.

http://birdwhisperer.smugmug.com/photos/476115210_Yp2k5-O.jpg

Canon 1D Mark III, 600mm, f/5.6, 1/1250, ISO 800, manual exposure, no flash, hand held

[John Blumenkamp]

Looks awesome Doug... still amazed at your handheld technique with the 600, and the incredible results. Great detail! Do you deal with any noise on the sky in an image like this, or is the MIII clean at iso800?

[bill kominsky]

Good looking is really not the title, it should be gorgeous and also good looking Doug, great shot congrat's.

Also what do you metermfrom and is there a + or - Ec ???

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Magnifica Doug!

What a lovely looking raptor. You did great with that light, sharpness and compo.
The only thing that bothers me is the dark halo on the base of the wing right behind the nape. Overall a great image.

[Doug Brown]

Hi Bill. I metered off of some light brown dead plants, and I didn't add or subtract exposure.

[Doug Brown]

I run NR on the BG of all of my images John. But noise is minimal and details well preserved at ISO 800 on the Mark III.

[Linda Robbins]

Nice capture of this lovely bird, good eye contact and composition. The dark halo mentioned by Juan Carlos is a bit of a distraction but an easy fix. Well done.

[Rich Williams]

Very nice shot.

[Joe Senzatimore]

Beautiful light and eye contact make this a "stunner".

[Mike Lentz]

Superb eye contact and nice light! I also see that burn where Juan mentioned, but thats an easy cleanup.

[Maxis Gamez]

Hi Doug,

Love the light and eye contact.

[Doug Brown]

Not sure how I missed that dark area. Here's a fixed version. Thanks for picking up on that Juan.

[Jasper Doest]

Love the eyecontact! Great that you were able to fix that halo, as it was a bit distracting....

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Now we are in business again. Very good job Doug.