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Stephen Earle
03-09-2010, 12:48 PM
50D
1/2000
F 6.3
500
400 2.8

Giant's Castle, South Africa
Doug Brown
03-09-2010, 01:10 PM
Like the sharpness. The sun looks like it was fairly high in the sky, creating a challenging exposure. You handled it well for the most part, but I'd tone down the whites a little.
Stephen Earle
03-09-2010, 01:51 PM
Thx Doug. On my monitor it looked ok but I checked and the original flashed up. I did a quick toning down but there's still some clipped pixels. I'll probably have to revisit the RAW at some point.
Jean Chang
03-09-2010, 03:05 PM
Whether the whites were hot or not, it's an amazing shot! The head angle is great--it has that "search and destroy" look on its face. Sharp and beautiful on my monitor. Repost whites look better.
Doug Brown
03-09-2010, 04:25 PM
The whites on the repost look much better!
Fabs Forns
03-09-2010, 05:04 PM
White issuer covered, I'd evict that pink on the lower right.
Very nice tight in flight portrait, congrats!
Alfred Forns
03-09-2010, 06:43 PM
The image is way cool !!! Agree on the whites, you might be able to recover, might try a linear conversion then normal and blend together One image worth working on !!! Sweet !!!
Tony Whitehead
03-09-2010, 06:54 PM
Love that stare. Might raise the bird in the frame a bit. Not sure if it's part of the issue here or not, but if you edit in a larger colour space (e.g ProPhoto) and then convert to sRGB for posting it will often push tones over the edge and clip them.
arash_hazeghi
03-09-2010, 07:02 PM
very nice sharp with good exposure, the purple oof patch in the LR corner is mildly distracting. TFS
Bruce Enns
03-09-2010, 09:12 PM
Beautiful sharp portrait, tight frame/composition works very well with head and eye position. Repost is much better on whites. Another vote for x'ing the pinkish blob. Congrats on a great shot!

Cheers!
Bruce
Arthur Morris
03-10-2010, 02:21 AM
While the whites look better on the repost the image does not :) The middle tones are way too light in both the repost and the ORIG. And the underwings look to have been lightened too much. That said the image is fantastic. I would definitely re-do the RAW. And anyone who says that the 50D can't focus needs to take a close look at this one :)
Stephen Earle
03-10-2010, 05:54 AM
Thanks everyone for your constructive comments. i think I'm gonna start from scratch with this image. Will maybe repost tomorrow.