Male Northern Harrier

[arash_hazeghi]

Weather has been dark and gloomy in recently and photography opportunities have been limited. I made this photo yesterday in Palo Alto Baylands. It was somewhat challenging as the harrier was flying faster and BG was changing rapidly between water, grass and sky and I had little time to dial in the appropriate exposure compensation. I manged to pull a few frames with the wing position that I liked. Here is one

http://www.stanford.edu/%7Eahazeghi/Photos/birds/male%20northern%20harrier.jpg

7D + 400 f/5.6 @ f/7.1 1/1600sec ISO 800 sw: Canon DPP 3.7.2 Digital processing, I cloned out a few patches in BG and ran NR on BG after crop.

Hope you like it.

[niranjan sant]

lovely flight shot,superb light you got here,showing all the details

[Harshad Barve]

Lovely wing pose and eye contact here Arashbhai , Nice complementing BG
TFS

[William Currie]

Nice photograph it would appear the 7D is working nice for you good work

[arash_hazeghi]

Nice photograph it would appear the 7D is working nice for you good work


Thanks William, indeed now I can easily shoot ISO 800 in mixed light conditions and keep the shutter speed up for these guys without worrying too much about noise! The image that you see has no noise reduction applied to the bird and the bird is only ~ 1400 pixels in RAW!

[Jan Fourie]

I like the light under wings,the posture ,superb BG and eye contact
jan:)

[Juan Aragonés]

Very good wings position, eye contact and details on this guy Arash. Lovely soft light.

[Ofer Levy]

This is really excellent! Looks very sharp to me, awesome pose and eye contact. I am pleased to see such a good shot made with the 7D - very well done!

[RAM MALLYA]

Superb flight captured lovely bird too

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the light, angle, wing position and slight head turn toward you. As for the changing BG, did you use manual or AV?

[Peter Farrell]

Excellent BIF image. I like the wing position, sharpness and light on the bird.

[Jim Crosswell]

Great lighting and eye contact in this flight capture!

[Krijn Trimbos]

Hi Arash,
Very nice bird, nice wingposition, great light and BG. I would only wish for a bit more headturn towards you. Otherwise very nice!

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks guys for nice comments
Axel I use TV mode all the time then dial EC as necessary.

[Doug Brown]

Nicely done Arash. Great light and good sharpness. A bit more eye contact would be nice, but it's still a fine image.