Captured this image at a local open space park. I have been trying to capture some images of this pair. The male seemed a little more tolerant this day. Thanks for looking.
I like exposure,direct eye contact, colors, windblown feathers.
If the light angle was a bit more over your shoulder the left eye would not be so shadowed, but because the light wasn't too harsh, its not as noticeable.
In a perfect world, I wish the vertical stick on the left wasn't there. Pardon the pun, but it 'really sticks out'.
Great shot Dan,
Great warm colors, well exposed, great focus.
I don't know if this is an effect of the JPEG compression or some sharpening but there seems to be a lot of noise on the top of the picture for ISO 125:confused:
Sky was way too intense. You are doing something wrong with your JPEGs as there was tons of artifacting in the BKGR. I QMed and flopped the good eye, ligthened the blues and the image, lost the extra branch, and Patch Tooled out a white sliver off the bird. And also a bit of de-SAt on the whole thing.
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ps: I forgot: ran a 1 pixel Gaussian blur on the BKGR only to smooth it out somewhat.
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Good looking Kestrel, and I like the eye contact. The ruffled plumage adds interest, and regarding the colours, I would go between your and Arties. Still, well captured Dan. Artie's job on removing the branch works well.
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