American Kestrel

[Roger Williams]

Coming in for a landing on a telephone wire.
Canon 40D ~300mm f/4L IS ~ ISO 200~ 1/1000th @ f/6.3~ hand held

[Amy Marques]

Nice moment caught with the spread wings and tail and I like the transparency of the tail feathers. I'd like to recommend removing the blue from the tips of the flight feathers and perhaps adding a bit more contrast overall. There are some halos along the wingtips- not sure if that is from editing or from light. Thanks for posting.

[Ramon M. Casares]

VERY nice pose and great detail although light wasn't ideal IMO. Nice exposure colors and comp, I love the transparency in the tail feathers.
Congratulations!

[Brian Barcelos]

Roger, love the wing and tail spread. Think it needs a little more sharpening and agree with whats been said. I believe the blue on the wing tips is chromatic aberration. Very nice overall and I know these aren't the easiest to photograph in flight. Congrats.

Brian

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

I would run NR on the BG. ALso sharpen it a touch more. Great spread! Love it. Thanks for sharing. :)

[Markus Jais]

Great flight shot. I like the spread wing and tail. Head turn is also great. I agree with the others about a little sharpening.

Markus

[Roger Williams]

Thanks, to all for the comments. Where, other than BPN, can we post images and receive helpful comments from around the globe! Thanks, Artie!

[Derek Griggs]

Its good to see on this site Roger. Excellent image here, wonderful animal. Great job on the exposure in a difficult situation.

[Doug Brown]

Great pose! Agree with the others about more sharpening, a contrast boost, and eliminating the chromatic aberration.

[Mike Lentz]

I agree with Doug's last post. It should be added that this image was a fairly good sized crop, isn't that correct Roger?
All in all a nice image that could use a few tweaks. :)

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

I love the pose, really captured it at the right momment. I agree with a bit more sharpening.

[Roger Williams]

I agree with Doug's last post. It should be added that this image was a fairly good sized crop, isn't that correct Roger?
All in all a nice image that could use a few tweaks. :)

Mike is correct. The image posted here is a tighter crop of an image posted elsewhere. I've boosted the contrast as suggested and can easily provide more sharpening. But, I've not had luck in correcting the chromatic aberration. I have a CS-3 manual that provides instructions for correcting it in Camera Raw with sliders. I've moved the blue/yellow slider 100% in both directions but fail to see any difference in the image. Perhaps there's a better method??