Chipped Beak!

[Don Hamilton Jr.]

Red Shoulder with a chipped Beak. Amazing how big these birds really are!
Metadata:
Full Frame no crop/ no alterations.
Canon 7D
200mm F 2.8 Plus 1.4 EX TCII
F16
!/60 S
Eval metering ---
Flash 580 EX II -2

[arash_hazeghi]

what happened to the beak :( can see you were so close that ran out of dof at f/16!!! would step back a bit to get the beak in focus too. looks a bit over-processed but nice pose and colors :)

[Daniel Cadieux]

Full Frame no crop/ no alterations.


You must have cropped at least a little bit to obtain a square comp!;)

This looks to be Red-tailed Hawk though...but I could be wrong. Is this a captive individual being rehabilitated? In any case it must be thrilling to see a raptor from so close. I can see you in the eye!:) A bit bluish, you could try raising the colour temp to see if it improves things colour-wise (you can also try destaurating the blue and/or cyan channels...)