Common buzzard

[Kalin Botev]

Hey everyone,
I just saw the theme of the month which reminded me of an image taken back in 2009.
This is a common buzzard coming at me in a cold winter day. The lack of sharpness of the image is due to the combination of 300 mm f/4 and a 1.7 TC which turned out to be a poor choice in that case. I did what I could to sharpen it. I know that the left wing is clipped but I really don’t like to add things.
Equipment:
Nikon D300s, Nikon 300 mm f/4 + 1.7 TC, f/6.7, 1/1600s, ISO 800.
PP:
High pass and sharpening, a bit of colour adjustments to the wings of the bird.
Thanks for your comments and advices.
Kalin

[arash_hazeghi]

I like the incoming pose Kalin with symmetric eye eyes, well done with exposure. it's a shame his left wing was clipped, it distracts from the image and the face does looks soft to my eye. unfortunately there is no way of sharpening a RAW file that was soft to begin with and in this case it shows


TFS

[David Salem]

To bad this isn't sharper because the pose it truly "straight down the barrel". Better luck next time.

[John Hackney]

Well done on the most difficult head on shot there is.