Peregrine Falcon at 1000mm

[Herb Houghton]

This is a female peregrine which is nesting along the Hudson River. Taken around noon on a clear sunny day.
mark III, 500 F4, 2X II teleconverter, ISO 400, f10, 1/400, +1 ec,

[DanWalters]

Very nice image. I like the roughed-up feathers and the clean background.

[Chris van Rooyen]

I love the passive strength of this posture! Beautiful light and background, I would prefer slightly more room at the top and bottom

[Daniel Cadieux]

This would have been perfect as a vertical, and with more room top and bottom. I like the spread feathers. Excellent BG, exposure and sharpness also look great. I would clean up the feather (?) on the perch near the talons. I slight head turn more towards us would have separated the bill-tip from the far cheek patch, but still not bad. Overall quite nice :-)

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Beautiful raptor!
This is just a suggestion of what can be made to this wonderful image. Great details and light.

[Fabs Forns]

Hey Herb, impressive image, and I love the "skirt" showing in the plumage. Great detail and EXP and neat BG. Thanks for sharing it!

[Herb Houghton]

This would have been perfect as a vertical, and with more room top and bottom. I like the spread feathers. Excellent BG, exposure and sharpness also look great. I would clean up the feather (?) on the perch near the talons. I slight head turn more towards us would have separated the bill-tip from the far cheek patch, but still not bad. Overall quite nice :-)

Thanks for the suggestion, Dan. I purposely cropped landscape style because last peregrine perched I posted, you suggested to not clip the vert. branch, so I included the horiz. perch to the end in a horiz. crop.

[Herb Houghton]

Beautiful raptor!
This is just a suggestion of what can be made to this wonderful image. Great details and light.

Thanks Juan, it certainly looks better in this crop.
Herb

[Kobus Tollig]

Great BG exposure and detail. Ditto comp but the rest is great well done