Peregrine Falcon

[Binu John]

1DX + 600mm f/4 IS II + 1.4X
f/8, 1/4000, ISO-1250
This was taken last summer. Though I didn't need this much shutter speed for this shot, I did that in anticipation of capturing a take off shot.
All C&C are welcome!

[arash_hazeghi]

great portrait of the male Peregrine Binu, some parts (feathers along the feet) show over sharpening artifacts (jagged edges ans halos), fix these and you will have a killer portrait

TFS

[dankearl]

It is a bit oversharpened, but cool portrait, nice day at the beach......

[Binu John]

Hi Arash; Dan;

Thanks for the C&C! Yes, I agree that it was a bit over-sharpened. I've tried to fix it.

great portrait of the male Peregrine Binu, some parts (feathers along the feet) show over sharpening artifacts (jagged edges ans halos), fix these and you will have a killer portrait

TFS

[arash_hazeghi]

repost is a big improvement!

[keith mitchell]

Binu simple sand and a great b/g, bird fits beautifully into it, I agree the repost does look better,like it a lot.


Keith.

[gail bisson]

What beautiful light you had.IQ is excellent.
Great low POV and I love the clean sand at the feet.
I will be like Goldilocks and say that the OP is a bit too sharp but the repost isn't sharp enough. I would go somewhere between the 2!!
Gail

[Raybel Robles]

A nice clean image. I agree with Gail's that I would sharpen just a tad more the 2nd repost. I would also maybe darken the eye a bit? It seems a bit greyish I think? There is also a slight yellow cast? but this may be my monitor a work. Other than that, this is a great image.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Lucky you with such a great sighting on clean sand like this. I love the talon showing nicely. Good light, and the touch of green in the BG adds a lot. For sure I would darken the pupil here.

[Walker Noe]

Wow, really nice. Repost looks better. Great POV.

TFS
Walker

[Binu John]

Thanks again, everyone!

I've sharpened the image a bit more and darkened the eye. Hope it looks better now.

Raybel, The colors looks good on my monitor.

[David Salem]

This is a great look at this Beautiful adult Peregrine falcon. I really like the pose and the Multi colored background. The real low shooting angle adds to the Great look of this Photo. The details and techs look great, but for the life of me, it looks like the nictitating membrane is closed. Look at your files and see if the other frames all look like this. Let me know I'd be interested find out. Great shooting as always Binu

[Binu John]

Thanks David! You are right. I checked the RAW file and the nictitating membrane is almost closed! No wonder why you always get awesome shots of raptors. You know your subjects well.

This is a great look at this Beautiful adult Peregrine falcon. I really like the pose and the Multi colored background. The real low shooting angle adds to the Great look of this Photo. The details and techs look great, but for the life of me, it looks like the nictitating membrane is closed. Look at your files and see if the other frames all look like this. Let me know I'd be interested find out. Great shooting as always Binu

[David Salem]

Hey Binu
Thanksfor getting back to me with that information. Yep, it looked like it's just about closed with a hair of it open.
glad we figured out what was going on there because all the darkening and sharpening of the puple still would not have helped it.
Keep em coming.