Red-shouldered Hawk

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this guy at Viera Wetlands, Viera, Florida earlier this week. Cropped about 50% to get to the square format, processed in Adobe Lightroom.

Nikon D7000, Nikon 70-300mm shot at 300mm, 1/1250, f/5.6, ISO 220

[Randy Stout]

Joe:

Well exposed with good look back pose. Just for personal taste, I would consider a modest crop off the top, as I don't feel the extra real estate up there adds to the comp.

Cheers

Randh

[Marina Scarr]

You've done a great job exposing for your raptor and you have super details. I think I might consider a crop from the right (and a slight crop from the left) and going vertical instead. If you are going to go horizontal, you are doing to have to take a little off of the bottom as well as the top. I just tried both. It's a matter of personal taste, but I think my eye is telling me vertical.

[Shawn Zierman]

Nice light quality. I like that it was not so bright as to block up the shadows....I like the sqare format here. I think it's under-utilized in bird photography, and it "feels" right to my visual senses on this one. I dig the gnarly old perch.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the perch, pose, exposure, sharpness and red shoulder is well displayed. Excellent image Joe!

[keith mitchell]

I really don't have a problem with the crop it looks fine to me but it,s interesting to see others points of view,very good colour and detail in the bird.

Keith.

[John Robinson]

Yes I think vertical more. Like the detail on the bird.
John

[vishaljadhav]

Very nicely exposed image, the perch is good and IQ is nice

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thank you all for viewing and commenting. To those who suggested a vertical crop I have made a Virtual Copy in Lightroom and cropped as suggested (posted below). I used a format of 4x3 rather than 2x3.

[keith mitchell]

Joe think this is the way to go, looks good.