Juvie. Peregrine Falcon "Gliding By"

[James Salywoda]

Peregrine Falcon
SoCal

This shot was a high speed glide right by me as you can see from the eye contact and position
of the Falcon. Cropped to a pano for composition.

Nikon D300 AFS 600 F4
1/2000 F6.3 ISO 500

Thanks For Looking
Jim

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

This is great. Eye contact is awesome. Like it as presented. :)

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Does your cropping note mean that it is almost full frame?
Nice pose. I just lack of a bit of contrast or better to adjust less shadows.

Szimi

[Raymond Barlow]

Excellent Image James.. I know first hand how tough it is to get a shot like this., really well done.

[Aidan Briggs]

Nice eye contact and action. I might raise the color temperature a bit.

[Richard Stern]

Beautiful pose, sharpness and eye contact. Seems a little flat to me - could perhaps use a bit of lightening and increased clarity.

Richard

[James Salywoda]

I just looked at the original image and thought about how horrible of a job I did on the shot processing it.....:(
Thanks to everybody for the constructive critique

[Mike Lentz]

Nice re-work, James! I know this guy was at Mach IV. The eye contact and wing position are wonderful!

[Diego Torrentes]

Hi James:

It seems that is going to get out of the screen. I like the position of the body, the direct look an also the sharpness.

Very well done.

Bye,

[Doug Brown]

Excellent job with the repost Jim! Sure had a blast on the cliff that day.

[Richard Stern]

Hi,

Great job on the post-processing now, and the colors look better. Overall a fantastic image!

Richard