Female Snail Kite

[denise ippolito]

Canon 1D Mark III
800mm lens
1/200 sec. at f/5.6
ISO 1250
Manual mode
Tripod from Jim Neiger's boat, Once again thanks to Jim and Artie.
Removed bands

[Stu Bowie]

Lots of detail here Denise, and a super comp. I like the posture showing the underwing nicely, and the food item a bonus. Lovely BG colours too. Well captured.

[John Blumenkamp]

Fantastic Denise! I love the overall pose, and especially the right leg/talon and how it's holding the catch. That background is awesome as well... I've always liked two toned backgrounds like shown here.

[Randy Stout]

Denise;

Lovely image, like the pose, comp,perch, action, sharpness.

A few warmish(;)) areas on the whites on belly and leg, but really a fine image.

Congrats!

Randy

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Really beautiful Denise with awesome action and excellent detail and composition. Big congrats !!!!

[Ed Schneider]

Wow! Excellent, Denise- I've not had a crack at these guys yet. The namesake prey really makes this, and of course the sharpness and detail.

[Mike Tracy]

I really like the wing position and feeding behavior. The whites do look a little bright. I wish he was on a more natural perch.

[Katie Rupp]

Great catch, Denise. I have a few Kite images with snails from Jim's boat but nothing that approaches this. I like the pose, the detail and the beautiful bg.

[Paul Kusmin]

Sweet shot Denise, love the pose, perch and BG.
Great wingspread and interesting catch all make for a keeper.

[Grace Scalzo]

Another great image, Denise. Love everything about it. Good idea to up the iso to obtain the shutter speed, must have been challenging !

[arash_hazeghi]

Lovely Denise, excellent pose and details.

[denise ippolito]

Thank you all for your kind comments. I appreciate them. :)

[Bob Pelkey]

Phenomenal detail. I don't consider the removal of the bands as necessary and would be intrigued by the knowledge obtained from them.

[Jeff Cashdollar]

d,...

Great moment in the life shot with food. Amazing the pro-bodies can support higher ISO so well, beautiful colors.

[Colin Knight]

Great stuff! Can you get anymore room to the left? Looks like you were fighting some low light there.....well done!

[Ilija Dukovski]

That BG is really special. Pose, snail, bird excellent...
Really lovely image.
Agree about the whites, did you try to recover in ACR?

[Markus Jais]

Great shot with awesome wing pose and fantastic details and DOF. The prey is a great bonus.

Markus

[Juan Aragonés]

Denise this one is just a fantastic shot, superb action, sharpness and nice OOF BG. I really love it. I think that the image is abit on the cold side of the spectrum and that some toning down of the BG and color boost made help to make this one even better. Big congratulations for such a fine capture :)
Of course, working with the RAW file would produce a better result than mine (let me know if you need help with the processing)

Juan

[Arthur Morris]

Love ours. It's great that you can see a more of the dorsal surface of the far wing than in my similar images. The lightest tones and the COMP look perfect to me.

Juan, Good to see you here. The repost look a bit too warm and contrasty for me. :)

[denise ippolito]

I appreciate everyone's comments and advice.
Bob, I have another pose w/ a slightly different wing position that I may post w/ the bands on.
Ilija, The tiff file is fine-so I am going to leave it. Thank you .I appreciate it.:)
Juan, I think that maybe I could warm it up just a bit. Nice to hear from you.:)Thanks.
Artie, I know I posted a copycat image that you already posted:pbut I really did like it.:)

[A_Maddah]

Hi Denise
Nice moment, eye contact and BG.
TFS

Asad

[Karl Egressy]

The original shot looks great to me, Denise. The repost by Juan will appeal to people who like this type of presentation but the original is far better in my opinion.

[Joe Senzatimore]

I vote for the original as well. The repost is a bit too contrasty for me.

[Morkel Erasmus]

I actually like the contrast of the repost...great shot Denise! awesome detail and action.

[denise ippolito]

Thank you all for your comments. I appreciate them.:)

[Harshad Barve]

How on the earth I missed this earlier :o:eek:
Terrific image , liked this as posted , Top class image Denise
TFS