Flaps Down (captive)

[Raymond Barlow]

D300 / 200-400 VR
1/1600s f/4.0 at 330.0mm iso250
Simcoe Ontario, Canada

hand held, natural light, slight crop

Another one from last weekends shoot., thanks again to David Hemmings, and Malcolm Benn for joining us on this workshop.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the wing position, incoming pose and underwing details and setting. I might clone out the bush in the upper right.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Very nice Raymond. I like the muted saturation. As is the bush in upper right offers good compositional balance - I like it there. If you do clone it out you will need to counter that with some cropping from above to avoid unecessary empty space up there. Either way would look good.

[Mike Lentz]

I agree with Daniel on all accounts. The brown tones make the image for me.

[Bonnie Block]

Ray, I like this one a lot. Love the subtle colors--dramatic pose. I think I would be tempted to just tone out the darker parts of that bush and leave the crop as is.

[Mark Schmitt]

The image is good. My take on the bush would be to select it and put it in its own layer; add some gausian blurr to mut it and push it to the back more, then us blending modes to adjust to image. I have a question. There is a feather that appears to protrud from under the birds right wing. It looks like a tail feather but looking at it closely it does not appear to be attached to eithte the wing, not does it have a continuing shaft from the tail. It has the appearance of just appearing with no know source. ? Good image.

[Alfred Forns]

I like it as presented and think its an outstanding image. Got a bird in flight sharp in a good flight position and also a great setting to go along with it !!! Big Congrats !!!

[Raymond Barlow]

thanks everyone, comments appreciated.

The image is good. My take on the bush would be to select it and put it in its own layer; add some gausian blurr to mut it and push it to the back more, then us blending modes to adjust to image. I have a question. There is a feather that appears to protrud from under the birds right wing. It looks like a tail feather but looking at it closely it does not appear to be attached to eithte the wing, not does it have a continuing shaft from the tail. It has the appearance of just appearing with no know source. ? Good image.

Thanks Mark., good eye, it was late at night, and that is a poor cloning mistake., as I did clone out the jessies.

I will make the correction asap.

[Nate Chappell]

Great flight shot Ray, I like the head on pose and the muted colors.

[bob arue]

I like this one Raymond!

[Dick Glover]

Just want to say that I think this is a truly wonderful image. Thank you for sharing.
I look forward to more.
Dick Glover

[Juan Aragonés]

Killer image Ray! Love the owl´s stare and the environment. Very good job