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    John Harper
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    Hi There

    Shot of a Wild Red Kite taken at the Hawk Conservancy, they often fly over when the European Black Kites are being flown in demonstration. They have bred about 8 birds that have been released into the wild in the surrounding area.

    I was lucky with this shot as he was looking at the camera, when I pressed the shutter.

    John

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    John
    Nice job getting this one overhead. I wish the light had been on at least his head but you have some very nice detail underneath. Very nice wing spread and I do like the eye contact. Watch out for those sharpening halos.....the image is more heavenly without them:):):)

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    HI John !!! To avoid the halos select the sky Inverse selection and contract a couple of pixels Then you can work on the bird without worrying On any bird with clean bg I will go about it in this way Love that wing position !!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alfred Forns View Post
    HI John !!! To avoid the halos select the sky Inverse selection and contract a couple of pixels Then you can work on the bird without worrying On any bird with clean bg I will go about it in this way Love that wing position !!!!
    Hi Alfred

    Thanks for the tips, i think it may be to do with the fact i used to use Raw Shooter to process the RAW files and i may well have tried to recover the highlights too much and it introduces a halo around the bird. I will have to try and revisit this one and try and do a bit better.

    John

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lana Hays View Post
    John
    Nice job getting this one overhead. I wish the light had been on at least his head but you have some very nice detail underneath. Very nice wing spread and I do like the eye contact. Watch out for those sharpening halos.....the image is more heavenly without them:):):)
    Hi Lana - Alfred

    I don't know if this is any better. I went back to the RAW file and played about in Lightroom. Perhaps you could let me know your thoughts on this version.

    John


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    Hi John,

    Nice capture of this red Kite. The lighting was less than ideal, but the second post looks good with the detail you were ablke to bring out by lightening it up. In the future, please post wild bird images with no man made elements visible, in the wild and free forum.
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