Black-shouldered Kite

[Isak Pretorius]

mk3
600f4 + 1.4tc
iso400
1/2000

All comments welcome!

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Beutiful pose/eye contact!

[Greg Basco]

Isak, stunning colors, and I love the framing. I'm sure you will receive a number of opinions but this is really a striking image.

Cheers,
Greg Basco

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the pose, sharpness and eye contact. I would lighten the shadow of the beak and desaturate the sky a few points.

[Lorant Voros]

Fantastic pose and eye contact. Little harsh light, but well done image. Congrats.

[david cramer]

A beautiful bird and capture. I agree about desat the sky just a bit. A minor reverse s-curve adjustment could also soften the hard light.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Another vote for desaturating the sky. Great pose, the near wing is full of good detail. In a perfect world (well, at least mine) the far wing would be stretched higher up, but man I would love something like this in my files!

[Dave Barnes]

Love the pose comp and details Isak.

[Kiran Poonacha]

All well pointed above, loved the pose here.. congrats..

[arash_hazeghi]

Love the details, you captured the intense red eye very well. another vote for toning down/ desat BG. If you want to be super critical HA could be a bit better hiding the partial right eye which is in shadow and left wing would be raised more. But it is prefect as is.

[Chris Kotze]

Excellent pose and lovely eye colours, well captured and exposed

[Dr.Pranay Rao Juvvadi]

The pose and the perch are great.