Northern Harrier Portrait

[David Salem]

I love portraits and decided that this encounter with this female last year warranted a closer look. This is from the same same sequence that I posted of her standing on a coot.
She's the one that uses the drowning technique to kill the coots. This is shot about 10 minuets before sunset in our beautiful and intense sunlight. Hope you like her.

1DX---840mm---f7.0---ss1/2500---ISO640---HH from truck@4:40pm---50% crop

Thanks as always for looking and for your input. I appreciate it.

David

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi David, nice to see you do static too.

Nice portrait and the warm, plain BKG sets off the subject well, no distracting elements or colours.

TFS
Steve

[Marina Scarr]

What a stunning portrait, David, and I love see each and every feather detail, pattern and nuance. Terrific color palette and your comp works well here.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Lovely details and colours, I think the choice of crop has worked well.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent portrait with beautiful color pallet, nice details and superb composition.
Love the frame David.

Regards,
Satish.

[Doug Brown]

Rocking detail and a beautiful subject!

[William Dickson]

Very nice David. All been said above. I also like the small whispy feathers in front of the eye Great Detail Well done

[arash_hazeghi]

very nice Dave! hope she's around when I get down there!

[David Salem]

Thanks everyone for the comments.

[David Salem]

Actually it is a bigger crop than the 50% I stated, more like 70%.. Here is the copy that I composed from, and it was cropped a bit, for a look at how far this was cropped, and it still preserved pretty nice detail. Good lighting has allot to do with this.

Thanks again

[Jonathan Ashton]

Wow that looks even more impressive to me.

[keith mitchell]

David I well remember the shot with the Coot, who wouldn't? It's amazing how you have kept the detail in the portrait.

Keith.

[Robert Kimbrell]

Super portrait David, Excellent light sharpness and background.

[mohammad reza shahab]

Excellent portrait.great details,colors and composition.superb BG.

[David Salem]

Thanks again for taking the time to comment everyone. I appreciate it.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

David, the portrait is killer but the original is to die for!

[Stu Bowie]

Hi David, I like how you have cropped this, just enough of everything. Excellent detail throughout, sharp, and against that smooth BG. Great work.

[David Salem]

Thanks everyone. I appreciate it.

[Loi Nguyen]

I'm late to the party, but what a lovely portrait. I see what you and Arash said in the Equipment post that if you get the Raw files sharp, you can crop a lot and be better off than a cropped sensor like the 7D2 as long as you don't print big. This is a great example. TFS. Loi


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