American Kestrel

[arash_hazeghi]

This is a female Kestrel shorty after take off. From SoCal



1DX II 600 II + 1.4X III. ISO 640. F/5.6 at 1/4000 sec. hand held from vehicle. processed with DPP 4.5 Hope you like it

[Satish Ranadive]

Fantastic flight shot with superb wing position, fanned tail feathers, beautiful HA and background.

Regards,
Satish.

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[Jonathan Ashton]

Oh yes I like it! Super action pose focus spot on colours beautiful. What is the background is it OOF mountains?
The left wing shows a little saw tooth artifact - adjacent to the bill.

[Sharon Hallowell]

What is saw tooth artifact? (And is your dog a curly-coated retriever?)

[Jonathan Ashton]

What is saw tooth artifact? (And is your dog a curly-coated retriever?)

Saw tooth = fine serrated edge sometimes due to a visual misconception due to contrast or sometimes due to over-sharpening.
Yes that is Barney my Curly coated retriever.

[Adhika Lie]

Superb pose! The left wing artifact aside, I think this is a very beautiful picture with great colors.

[Ryan von Linden]

I really like kestrels and this is a great shot! The wing position and spread tail are wonderful!

[annmpacheco]

Eye contact, pose, wing position with a bit of blur and fanned tail, but i love the open foot, was he hunting, or ready for touch down? Superb Arash

[Stuart Philpott]

Arash,is that post take off? And also second John's question on what constitutes the background.... please?

Beyond that a master at work, everything in the image is exceptional for me. The English version "tinnuculus" I have a deep love affair with if I could capture something approaching this image one day of our treasure frankly i'd die a happy man .
wonderful work Arash simply stunning.

take care

Stu

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks everyone, the B is distant hills.

As for the jagged artifacts, I saw them after Jon pointed out but I am too lazy to fix it now. just ignore that part :)

[David Salem]

Beautiful take off shot Arash!! Awesome details and BG. Glad you got a nice frame of Lady Kestrel in flight. TFS

[arash_hazeghi]

Beautiful take off shot Arash!! Awesome details and BG. Glad you got a nice frame of Lady Kestrel in flight. TFS

Hey Dave this one actually wasn't the "lady", was the more skittish girl we saw the day before

it was fun shooting

cheers

[Joseph Przybyla]

Can one say... perfect. Thank you for sharing, Ari.

[arash_hazeghi]

here is an edit with jaggies fixed

[Sharon Hallowell]

Thank you Jonathan! (And handsome dog...I've never seen one in real life)

[Loi Nguyen]

Arash, what a beauty! Perfect pose with good wing position and eye contact. Hope I can spend a day or two out there during the holidays.

[Frank Schauf]

Great light and flight pose.