Lanner Falcon

Lanner Falcon on a dead tree, photo taken in Namibia, Mai 2006.
Technical data: Canon Eos 1DMkII, Canon 100-400 with 1,4x Extender @ 560mm, ISO 400, 1/640 sec, f 11

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Tassilo

nice looking bird, tassilo!! looks a little oversharpened to me? could be wrong. too bad about the light coming from the right. would love to see just a little more light on the left side of the bird.

Fully agree with Harold !!! Important to obtain a good sun angle or fill flash !!!

Not sure is the over sharpening is caused by going over because of the converter? I never had much luck with the combination.

Great pose, perch and good-looking specimen. Adding to the other comments, I would crop a bit off the right to get the bird out of the center.

Thanks for your comments :)

@ Harold: I will try another postprocessing/sharpening

@ Alfred: combination of the zoom 100/400 with an extender is always only second choice, therefore I used f:11 to get best sharpness

@ Axel: I will try the crop - my first intention when creating the picture was a symmetrical image

Thanks again

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Tassilo