Sandhill Crane in flight - Bosque

[Dennis Zaebst]

I was prowling through folders from a couple of years ago, and came across this one. I liked the open beak, and the wing positions. Thanks in advance for C/C as always.

Canon 7D ISO 400, full-frame + added canvas at top, bottom and left (original was a bit too tight in those areas). 500 mm f/4L IS; 1/1600 sec. @ f/9.0. PP in LR 4.2 and added canvas in Photoshop CS4. Almost no processing except the canvas, a little luminance smoothing on BG, and a little sharpening of the bird.

[Karl Egressy]

Nice calling pose captured very pleasantly, Dennis.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Dennis, very nice capture with the open beak. Good job on the exposure and detail in the feathers.

[Raymond Lee]

Nice calling pose! Great sharp details and good focus on the eye. Ideally, I wish the wing tips, especially the left ones, are fully extended.

[gail bisson]

A very nice image. I, too, wish the wings were fully extended.
Great underwing detail and I like the open beak,
Gail

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent flight pose captured.Love the open beak,nice details and colors.

Regards,
Satish.

[Dennis Zaebst]

Thanks to all of you. I truly appreciate the advice and critiques.

I will request of the bird extended primaries in the future! We'll see how it goes!

Seriously, thanks again...I'm learning a lot from everyone here.

[Daniel Cadieux]

From the sounds of it you were lucky to get the subject to fit the in the frame! Exposure and deatils look great. Apart from the curled wingtips this is as nice a "plain blue sky" flight image of a Sandhill Crane you could ask for.

[Dennis Zaebst]

Thanks Daniel...I appreciate your stopping by and your comments. This bird was almost too close to me with my 500 and cropped-sensor 7D, I WAS lucky to get him in the frame without clipping something! Thanks again!