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    Red Tailed Hawk in flight late afternoon. The image isn't as sharp as I would have liked (may be hand shaking?), but I like the intense look of the bird.

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    Cropped and increased Dark and Shadow in LR a little bit, including the shadow on the eye.

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    Loi
    Last edited by Loi Nguyen; 02-09-2013 at 11:56 PM. Reason: re-load image

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    It looks sharp to me, a bit too saturated and not great light on the bird.
    I think you tried to bring up the light on the wings but unfortunately lost some detail.
    The nice look at the head and I do like the determined expression.
    Dan Kearl

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    Quote Originally Posted by dankearl View Post
    It looks sharp to me, a bit too saturated and not great light on the bird.
    I think you tried to bring up the light on the wings but unfortunately lost some detail.
    The nice look at the head and I do like the determined expression.
    Thank you Dan. I realized I underexposed the underside of the wings, so untied to lighten it a little bit. I should try to use filled flash next time.

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    Beautiful incoming pose with nice HA.Nice composition too.
    Rest is mentioned by Dankearl.

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    Satish.

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    Satish and Dan, I see it now. The loss of details was due to under-exposure. I was in Manual mode and had only a second to take aim when the hawk was closing in.

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    Nice incoming pose, Loi. I find the the picture is too dark overall.

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