What an awesome couple of days I had at Durlston Country Park, Swanage! I had the pleasure of watching the resident pair of Peregrine Falcons for around 30-45 mins at sunset. Coming to this image, it was shot with the 500mm PF + 1.4x TC. The bird wasn't far at all, but I was shooting a few close-up portraits when the falcon decided to take-off. Since I didn't have time to detach the TC, I just quickly fired a burst of images and hoped they'd turn out sharp. I clipped the near wing on 1 of the 3 images in the sequence, but I managed to capture this pose so I'm happy In terms of PP, all I did was some basic exposure adjustments, saturation, NR, and sharpening for post. I also applied Nik Tonal Contrast and Detail Extractor at a low opacity. No cloning was done. Although I'm aware that it may improve the final image, I wanted to keep it completely natural.
Camera - Nikon D850
Focal Length - 700mm
Aperture - f/11
Shutter Speed - 1/4000s
ISO - 4000
Handheld
Manual, Auto ISO
Crop - 80-85% of full-frame
All comments and CC are appreciated
EDIT: I'm uploading the newer version of this image that has been processed in C1 and PS, but I'm leaving both versions here for anyone who wants to compare the two I'm still trying to figure out my workflow especially downsizing and sharpening for web use as the file sizes are always too large even after compression. It's either that, or low sharpness and image quality issues. Capture One has certainly been a massive help with regard to the latter.