Red-tailed hawk

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

I made this image in Bosque Del Apache NM couple of days ago.

I finished my year end trip to Bosque, Conditions were difficult and snow goose were very far away for my Bast offs. So I tried to take different images from Bosque

Camera Settings:-
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Nikon D850 600 f/4 + 1.4 x TCIII
1/8000 sec; f/5.6; ISO 800
Manual; Matrix metering




Post Processing:-
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Raw Processing using C1P 20
No Cropping
Nik 25-25 Filter on Bird at reduced opacity
Tonal Adjustments in Viveza
Neat Image NR
Sharpening for Presentation
Dodge selectively
No Cloning.




Let me know your thoughts and comments.


Thanks
Krishna

[John Mack]

The exposure and light looks nice. I take it the bird is on a deadfall or a pile of trees after some recent construction.

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

The exposure and light looks nice. I take it the bird is on a deadfall or a pile of trees after some recent construction.

Yes bird is some deadfall trees parallel to me while I was standing in north loop

[arash_hazeghi]

I love the hawk but not the ugly stump on the lower right and all those distracting branches in the bottom :) gotta crop this a lot tighter if it holds

TFS