American Kestrel

[arash_hazeghi]

http://www.stanford.edu/~ahazeghi/Photos/birds/kestrel.jpg

Shot in Half Moon Bay, CA
40D+400 f/5.6
f/7.1 1/125sec ISO 400, handheld

[Tony Whitehead]

Lovely light showing plumage detail, colours and textures. Nice smooth BG with complimentary colour palette - lightening the darker areas and desaturating the greens in the BG may be worth a try. May be an option to crop a little from the left to decentre the head in the composition.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Very nice, great light, pose, perch, comp, BG, detail and colors. Congratulations!

[Randy Stout]

Arash:

Tony hit the high points. It is a lovely bird, with very nice overall presentation. I agree about the slight crop also. I also thought about the idea of eliminating the lower right clump of plant, just to simplify the image, but that would just be a personal choice I think.


Thanks so much for sharing!

Randy

[Stu Bowie]

Stunning light, colours and detail captured in this. This is also nice and sharp, with a lovely pose. I would maybe take a bit off the left and bottom.

[Charles Wesley]

You did well as everyone has detailed. Did you get any verticals?
Thanks for sharing....
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Charlie Wesley
St. Augustine Beach, FL

[Mike Lentz]

The BG complimentary colors and light are very nice. Another vote for cropping it tighter.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Awesome capture of a very difficult bird to photograpj. Beautiful lighting with good detail and exposure. Really like the clean BG and composition of this image. Big congrats !!!

[Danny Laredo]

Overall a really sweet image.

[Doug Brown]

Great light, nice head turn. good sharpness, and a pretty BG. I would crop a sliver off the left, and like Tony's idea of desaturating the greens in the BG.

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks guys,
I will apply all the suggestions and repost to see if you like it

Thanks:)