Red-tailed Hawk in flight.

[Karl Egressy]

The top one quarter of the background was the gray sky. Using the bottom three quarter colors, I filled it in.
Thanks for looking.

Canon 1D MIV
Canon 500 f4.0
ISO 1250
1/1600 s
f 5.6
HH

[Henry Domke]

Making the background more uniform makes sense. However, your mask around the trailing wing feathers needs help, especially where they are fringed with white. It does not look real to me. I suggest learning more about masking. If you are using Photoshop try working more with refine edge. Also, zoom in closer and use the paint brush to clean up the mask to avoid the flaws seen in the "V" areas between the feathers.

[Arthur Morris]

Stunning capture even though the bird is angled slightly away. I see just one spot on the trailing secondaries that needed more care. But I no longer see such good :).

[Karl Egressy]

Thank you both. Will look into what can be done better next time based on your advices.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent flight shot. Love the wing position,HA with nice eye, beautiful BG and composition.

Regards,
Satish.

[vishaljadhav]

The BG is lovely and i like the level of the bird compared to the sensor
the wings up position works well here.
Placement of the bird in the frame looks good

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Karl, great raised wing position for this inflight pose, and nicely placed in the frame too. I do like the colour of the BG, but do see some banding in the BG below the bird.

[arash_hazeghi]

nice pose, BG shows signs of heavy processing/artifacts.

[David Salem]

Nice capture Karl. Nice pose and details in this. I dont mind that its looking away a bit as it looks like it on the move, Nice wing position too. Well done

[MohsenVahedipour]

Nice details with excellent wing position. TFS