Female Northern Harrier

[arash_hazeghi]

This photo is from early 2007, it's a female northern harrier, carefully watching me as she was flying over.




It was with a Canon 20D + 300 f/4 + 1.4X TCII f/7.1 1/500 ISO 400 manual exposure. Hope you like it.
P.S. this photo was shot in JPEG quality, the original 20D had only buffer for 6 RAW!!! so I had to use JPEG for bursts, unfortunately there wasn't much additional room for post.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Loved the head on angle, the eye contact and details, well done.. the bird is too centered in the frame I feel...

[Art Peslak]

a nice underside shot. you did well to control the exposure and pull detail from the dark side with a jpeg.

[Harshad Barve]

lovely postion , HA, underwings details , BG
Ditto Kiran here for compo
TFS

[Daniel Cadieux]

Neat looking bird showing us its feather patterns on its underwings. Neat view of both eyes too. Perhaps a tighter comp would make the centered presentation look better as there is currently a bit of extra sky that doesn't add to the image. What do you mean by: "unfortunately there wasn't much additional room for post."?

[Ben Egbert]

Good job for jpg and underside. Nice exposure too.

[Brian Barcelos]

The 20D buffer does fill up pretty quickly, I have lots of experience with that to this day. It can be frustrating when there is lots going around at the same time.:( You still did great here and I love the eye contact. Nice detail in the feathers also. I'd like a little room cut from the right.

Brian

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks all for the comments, I tightened the crop and it is slightly off center now

[arash_hazeghi]

Neat looking bird showing us its feather patterns on its underwings. Neat view of both eyes too. Perhaps a tighter comp would make the centered presentation look better as there is currently a bit of extra sky that doesn't add to the image. What do you mean by: "unfortunately there wasn't much additional room for post."?

Since it was a JPEG, there is no aditional information in the file for post processing like highlight recovery etc.

[arash_hazeghi]

The 20D buffer does fill up pretty quickly, I have lots of experience with that to this day. It can be frustrating when there is lots going around at the same time.:( You still did great here and I love the eye contact. Nice detail in the feathers also. I'd like a little room cut from the right.

Brian

Hi Brian,
Yup, we have come a long way, since I got the 40D I have never ran out of buffer again. Major improvement!!! :) Thanks