white-tailed kite

[arash_hazeghi]

Here is a perched image of the WTK to go with the image Joel posted, this one has kind of a Halloween feel to it! Hope you like it


A1 and 600 f/4 + 2X TC. (1200mm) ISO-2000 f/8 1/2000 sec handheld processed with C1P

[Jay Ing]

I could see this without the added vegetation on the left - but man, what detail... the golden hazy feel to this is so sweet. Too bad the eye is OOF. (whaa whaa whaa). It's great.

[arash_hazeghi]

the veggies look like broccoli hehe too much work to remove them , it was impossible to avoid. I made a larger version with vegetation on both sides I think it looks better but the kite will be too small if I shrink it for web posting.

cheers

[arash_hazeghi]

this is the horizontal, I am curious which one is better?

[Ian McLachlan]

no 1; it's so beautiful you don't need the embellishment of all the rest of the vegetation.

[Kurt Bowman]

Great eye contact, light and detail I this image Arash! nicely done

[Jonathan Ashton]

I would have said the second if the ghostly stems were not there, having said that I think both are excellent.

[Arthur Morris]

I am with Jon on the mostly stems being a negative but I like the first one a lot better. The sharpness at HH 1200mm with a big crop is beyond astounding. There has been lots on the a1 on my bog recently.

with love, artie

[arash_hazeghi]

I am with Jon on the mostly stems being a negative but I like the first one a lot better. The sharpness at HH 1200mm with a big crop is beyond astounding. There has been lots on the a1 on my bog recently.

with love, artie

Thanks Artie but I don't understand your comments re. big crop, the image is about 5000 pixels tall which is quite large and indeed larger than 90% of my WTK images taken in the past 15 years with 20 mega pixel cameras bodies mostly.