American Kestrel

[arash_hazeghi]

D700 + 200-400 VR + 1.4X TC HH ISO 640 f/6.3 1/1000 sec.

[Harshad Barve]

lovely shot with open beak and wing position ,
TFS

[Dave Barnes]

Hi Arash. I like the pose and the feather colour and detail. The head looks a bit soft to me, is this due to a large crop? I would place the bird a bit higher in the frame.

[arash_hazeghi]

Hi Dave, thanks for the comments, yes the birds has some motion blur as 1/1000sec wasn't really enough to freeze this guy, I should have used 1/2000 sec :D

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Banking pose and open beak are great. It does look quite soft and I could see this as a vertical crop, too.

[Paul Randall]

Action captured nicely but a bit of motion blur as you said.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

I think the softness is the combination of shutter speed and panning technique, more so the panning technique, but following this guy would be hard for sure. Love the spread tail! :)

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks guys, Akos you are absolutely right, panning is difficult with a monster rig when action happens so quickly!