Red-tailed Hawk in Flight

[Raymond Barlow]

Hamilton Ontario, Canada

D300 /200-400 VR
1/500s f/5.6 at 330.0mm iso320

hand held, natural light, almost full frame

I got out this afternoon just in time for the dang clouds to come in!

[Doug Brown]

Nice to nearly fill a frame with a beautiful hawk. Great wing position and eye contact. The bird could stand some additional sharpening; I would have pushed my ISO higher to get a bit more shutter speed. Also I would lighten the iris a bit.

[Juan Aragonés]

Ray I can´t imagine how much fun are you having with this cooperative bird and you can´t imagine how much envious I am :D The pose is fantastic and I like a lot that kind of soft and cold light in images with the Bg almost white. I really like this one. Very good job!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great pose and eye contact, details and BG look good, too. I actually like this kind of light. You could maybe lighten the eye a bit more and there is a thin diagonal line in front of the bird, maybe an OOF power line?

[Raymond Barlow]

thanks Doug and Juan

Great pose and eye contact, details and BG look good, too. I actually like this kind of light. You could maybe lighten the eye a bit more and there is a thin diagonal line in front of the bird, maybe an OOF power line?

Yes Axel, I did clone out a power line, and must have missed something, I wish I had a good monitor, as I am just using a laptop for editing., I will open it again, and have a look.

[Raymond Barlow]

Great pose and eye contact, details and BG look good, too. I actually like this kind of light. You could maybe lighten the eye a bit more and there is a thin diagonal line in front of the bird, maybe an OOF power line?

after tilting my screen almost all the way back, I did see it, and I do wonder what it is? I will have a look at the site today.

[Mike Lentz]

Re-post works for me Mr. Raptorman! I agree with lightening the iris a bit to make it stand out/pop a bit...

P.S. Axel has eyes as good as that RTH! ;)

[Dave Phillips]

repost looks cleaner Ray....the diagonal is gone.
Congrats on such a close image...the little head turn is just perfect

[Raymond Barlow]

repost looks cleaner Ray....the diagonal is gone.
Congrats on such a close image...the little head turn is just perfect

thanks guys., I dodged a bit around the eye, and It does look better... here is a RLH in some better light today., just enough to give me a catchlight.

http://www.pbase.com/raymondjbarlow/image/108530959

[Arthur Morris]

I love white skies for flight photography and I love this image. The underwing detail is amazing and the pose and wing position fabulous. Lightening the iris was the final touch. You gotta watch out for Axel, he is the master monitor tilter.