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    Default Northern Harrier

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    This was taken a few years ago at my local wildlife area. This is an adult female giving me the eye as she makes a pass in our nice evening light.

    1DMkIV---700mm---f6.3---ss1/3200---ISO800---HH@ 5:45pm---35% crop

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    the light is magic, so is the BG and eye contact. I think you can extract more details out of this frame.

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    Terrific shot, well caught, I would suggest toning down the highlights.

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    Thanks for the comments guys.

    Johnathan, Thanks as always for your help. Does the under wing or the rump look too bright on your monitor? It dose not on mine so I would like to know if it is me. Sometimes if your brightness is set to high, things look too bright or not enough. Lets see what the others see. Thanks again
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    Beautiful light David and super pose. I am also finding it a bit bright and dont get the normal detail in this one (but might be me). Still great regardless

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    Excellent light,BG and pose.nice eye Contact.

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    Sweet shot, David! Great light, flight pose, and bg. The exposure looks perfect to me, not too bright. The perceived lack of detail in the bright areas is likely due to the very smooth feathers in those areas. There usually isn't much detail visible and this is normal.

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    A real beauty David. Excellent light, shooting angle, IQ and background.

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    Excellent image David! I like the light, HA, BG, exposure and composition.

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    Thanks for the comments everyone.

    Thanks Jim. You are right in that some feathers on Harriers and allot of other birds look soft with the naked eye and lack any fine details. Some Terns, especially their underwings, lack feather detail.
    I know from shooting Bonaparte's gulls that they have very soft feathers on most of their breast and give the illusion of being soft or OOF when in fact they are sharp.

    That being said, I do see a difference in some of the stuff that I shot and processed a few years ago. The 1DX and the 600II give me consistently better and sharper files to work with.

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    Amazing colors, details and background, excellent.

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    Killer light and flight shot. Exposure looks on the money to me.
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    A beautiful shot, exposure looks good on my monitor. Great wing position.
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    Thanks everyone for the input. Good to know that most of your monitors are setup similar to mine. Thanks
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    The picture isn't half bad and the light is sublime! Love it
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    Very nice David, beautiful light - exposure looks good to me too.

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