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Love the high key, pose, HA, details, colors and framing. In short, PMP. TFS
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Really like dorsal flight frames like this. Yes and excellent view of that fanned out tail. Nice and sharp with good detail.
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Great pose, and the best head angle I've seen from your diving shots Will. Your birds seem to be a little more brown compared to the ones at Harewood or Gigrin, maybe its a local population thing?
Mike
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Originally Posted by
Mike Poole
Great pose, and the best head angle I've seen from your diving shots Will. Your birds seem to be a little more brown compared to the ones at Harewood or Gigrin, maybe its a local population thing?
Mike
Hi Mike....Thanks for that...I've noticed different shades of browns on the birds up here. Don't know why that is...I was at the release of the birds into Central Scotland during the 80's, and if I remember correctly those birds DNA came from Germany..maybe something to do with it..Showing my age now...I also remember seeing them in the Forest of Dean in Wales in the early 70's. At that time there were only 13 known breeding pairs in the UK..I am so glad their re introduction has been so successful, as they are beautiful birds and great to photograph.
Will
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Another beauty Will. This is my favorite pose I have seen from this series. Good job on the processing.
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Lovely. Loves the array of brown tones on this backside. Wish the wings were similarly size/symmetrical - but taking what we get... this is pretty sweet. TFS.
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Another beauty from the Kite King!
Great frame Will, congrats.
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Like the Framing of the bird and wing position.
Well done.
TFS
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These are always excellent, you have a well trained bird....
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Hi Will, like the HK approach here, nice detail with good control of Contrast and sharpening, what have you changed, it's a massive difference.
Is this still from the same feeding station as previous?
TFS
Steve
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Thanks All...appreciated
Will
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Originally Posted by
Steve Kaluski
Hi Will, like the HK approach here, nice detail with good control of Contrast and sharpening, what have you changed, it's a massive difference.
Is this still from the same feeding station as previous?
TFS
Steve
Hi Steve...Yes this is the same set from the ones I posted earlier, including the 2 Kites together doing the banking pose. Same settings for nearly all the images. 1/1600 and ISO 1600....I tried a few different exposures that day and this one seemed to work best for me. Remember the 2 together were showing too much magenta...on auto WB, but the sky BG ones exposed perfectly. As far as the processing...I haven't really 'changed' anything, just not pushing the sliders on ACR as much as I used to...and ETTR is making it easier to process 
Will
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just not pushing the sliders on ACR as much as I used to...and ETTR is making it easier to process
Hurrah, now you see what I've been saying, I'm pleased, it's working out well, keep them coming.
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