Harrier Flyby

[John Guastella]

Taken at the Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve in Newport Beach, CA last February. I would have liked a better wing angle (to show more of the head), but I was happy to get such a close shot of this bird (this is about a 50% crop).

Canon 7D with the 400mm f/5.6 lens. Manual; f/8; 1/1600sec; ISO 800.

Standard PP, except I improved the originally-bland sky color using a Selective Color adjustment layer.

Thanks for looking,

John

PLEASE NOTE: This image is not posting properly. Don't know what the problem is, but the posted image is smaller than the original and is blurred.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

John, I dont see it blurred...infact looks very sharp and nice. Excellent dorsal view, details and exposure.

[wendell westfall]

John, very nice "topside" view. I think (may have) seen the same bird there on more than one occasion, but never that close up . . . It looks a little blurred to me, as well.

[Jeff Sorbie]

Looks great to me. Sharp and well exposed. Nice head angle also. I really like the top view, nice capture.

[Gary Esman]

Looks good to me also, would not have noticed anything if not mentioned. Nice HA

[John Guastella]

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Something's definitely wrong on my end. When I view the image within the thread using either Firefox or Safari, it is about 1/3 smaller than the original image I uploaded and definitely fuzzy. The image I uploaded is 1001 pixels x 800 pixels (H x V) and 127kB. The posted image is definitely smaller than that when I view it in the thread.

Not sure what's going on.

John

[Arthur Morris]

The image look sharp here too. My only wish is that the near wing were angled down to present a nice dorsal view. I am pretty sure that this is a youngster.

[John Guastella]

This image is now displaying properly (as of Sunday night, 10/24). The forum image size problem has been fixed (see this thread: Image Size Problem (http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?73812-Image-Size-Problem)).

John