Red-shouldered Hawk

[Walter E Coleman]

http://Red-shouldered Hawk in flight by Photoflorida, on Flickr

[Randy Stout]

Walter:

Well exposed, with dynamic pose. I don't mind the wing blur, but wish the head was a bit sharper.
Please be sure to post your camera/lens details, including settings, and any post processing you did. This really helps us provide useful critiques.

There is a smudge beneath the birds left wing, did you remove something?

Cheers

Randy

[Walter E Coleman]

Walter:

Well exposed, with dynamic pose. I don't mind the wing blur, but wish the head was a bit sharper.
Please be sure to post your camera/lens details, including settings, and any post processing you did. This really helps us provide useful critiques.

There is a smudge beneath the birds left wing, did you remove something?

Cheers

Randy

Sorry I forgot to add details. Don't remember removing anything.
Processed with PSE12.
Canon EOS70D
Canon 100-400L
iso 100
1/500 sec at f5.6
400mm

[Randy Stout]

Thanks for the extra info. Shutter speed for birds in flight needs to be sig. higher, depending on the size and speed of birds. I would consider 1/1000s the bottom end, and higher is preferable.
In this case, you could have bumped up your ISO to get more shutter speed flexibility.

Cheers

Randy

[arash_hazeghi]

Randy is right, using slow SS and low ISO caused this one to come out blurry. you sharpened it too much in post processing and as a result head looks strange.

The image is too small. You can also post at larger size to show details better once you get a sharp shot

TFS