Another bad day for the Pigeons

[Raymond Lee]

The following photo was captured yesterday (on Jan 27th) at a grain elevator in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. I photographed something similar last year at the same location, and I'm happy that I got the action capture of the Prairie Falcon again this year.




Canon EOS 7D | Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS + Kenko 1.4x Teleplus PRO 300 DGX + Canon Extender EF 1.4x II
Av mode (accidentally set, but it still turned out pretty well), Evaluative Metering +1 stop: 1/2000 sec., f/5.6, ISO 640

All C&Cs are welcome!

Thanks,
Raymond

[Richard Stern]

Well-captured action, and the trail of feathers is excellent. I would like more of a crop, but I suspect that might degrade the image quality of the birds to a poor level. Color of the sky and the contrasting falcon in particular is great. Well exposed for detail on the bird(s) with the +1 stop.

Richard

[Raymond Lee]

Well-captured action, and the trail of feathers is excellent. I would like more of a crop, but I suspect that might degrade the image quality of the birds to a poor level. Color of the sky and the contrasting falcon in particular is great. Well exposed for detail on the bird(s) with the +1 stop.

Richard

Thanks! Just a note that this is as far as I will probably go in terms of cropping (although there's still some slight leeway).

[vishaljadhav]

Amazing moment captured , the flowing feathers behind the bird gives more impact to the action

[David Salem]

Nice job catching the action. The streaming feathers off the pigeon add to the shot. Well done

[Brendon Cremer]

Lovely image and great action well captured, i really like the trail of feathers behind.

[Karl Egressy]

Good idea that you included the trail of feathers behind the bird. I witnessed and photographed a similar story at Niagara Falls in 2009. They start to pluck the feathers while still in the air.
Great action shot, Raymond.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Raymond,

This is a great storytelling image, and that's what photography is all about!

Would be nice to have a tighter crop, but like you said, that may reduce the IQ a bit.

Miguel

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Raymond, well done for capturing this fast flyer in action. The IQ is just holding up, and the trailing feathers puts this up a notch.

[Jim Crosswell]

Well timed image Raymond! I like the trailing feathers, prey and mouthful of feathers.