Marsh Harrier taking off

[Gerald Kelberg]

Hi Guys,

Happily I have a number of Harrier images to practice my Lr skills to try and achieve the Forum level and apply the guidance kindly provided.

This is a different bird from a different sequence albeit at the same settings. As mentioned earlier, the Marsh Harrier was photographed from a hide in central Spain, through glass, on a baited site that draws in a number of birds.

Using the Sony A9II with the FE 200-600 at 329mm, f7.1 and ISO 800.

I have tried varying my post production technique, this time using the "Enhance" facility in Lightroom. I moved the bird slightly back in the frame in PS. I darkened the image slightly and adjusted the tonality and colour to my taste.

I downsized the image and used USM in PS to sharpen the image at the output size. I'm hoping this will give a sharper look to the images hers.

Comments and feedback are most welcome!

Thanks, Gerald

[Arthur Morris]

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. By far.

with love, a

[Arthur Morris]

ps: removing the white specks in the lower left corner would improve this.

a

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Gerald nice take off pose and you nailed him perfectly .
Image looks good overall ... nice to have some color variation in the BG .
I think it is a weee bit tight on the top and bottom ... personal taste .

Do not get the point to use any NR at Iso 800 , but maybe it is necessary with the Sony gear .... who knows .

TFS Andreas

[Jonathan Ashton]

Super shot lovely details. I wasn't there so I don't really know how it looked but I get the impression that overall the image is a little too yellow???