Black Shouldered Kite

[Ken Watkins]

Taken near Babalala Picnic Site on H1-7 Kruger NP 12th June 2008

EOS 1D MKIII

EF 500m F4 IS on bean bag

F8, 1/2500, ISO 800

[Ken Watkins]

Peter,
The eyes have received no special treatment. I agree that maybe further cropping on the right may be better. What do you mean by s/h?

[Doug Brown]

He's referring to the Shadows/ Highlights tool in PS. It'll help lighten the shadows and darken hot spots. The main issue in this photo is the angle of light; you can deal with it to a certain extent in post-processing, but if you can it's always best to deal with it in the field (in this case moving to the right).

[Fabs Forns]

I think S?H was already applied here because there's a huge halo around the bird and perch.
Beautiful bird, btw...

[Ken Watkins]

I agree with the all of the above, I would loved to have moved but off-road is not allowed in South African National Parks.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Just to polish-up your image for presentation there is also some darker OOF stuff at bottom and right that you could easily take care of (by cloning or QM, for example).

[Arthur Morris]

Great job of critiquing by all above so nothing to add other than toning down the blue sky a bit. Thanks to all above. And welcome to Ken. It's great to see so many new folks posting here today.