Northern Harrier

[Indranil Sircar]

This was taken recently at Half Moon Bay, CA. Timing was late afternoon with overcast sky and poor light. I pushed the ISO to 1600 and used betterbeamer. I liked the approaching pose with the fan tail; direct eye contact would have been nice. Settings were -

40D, Sigma 50-500mm @ 500mm, Ex 580 + BetterBeamer, hand held
1/1000 sec, f/6.3, Mode: Av, Metering: Evaluative, Exp comp: 0, ISO: 1600, White balance: Cloudy

I did a bit of pp in adjusting levels, saturation, selective color, applied nr and usm. Your C&C will be apprciated.

~ Indranil

[arash_hazeghi]

Excellent shot Indranil, love the eyes, fan tail and wing position. You captured one of the best possible poses of the harrier. I also love the wing outlines. On my screen some of the finer plumage seems a bit soft, I might sharpen a bit more. Also the image would benefit from slight pop of contrast. Great work, TFS.

[Harshad Barve]

Fabulous shot Indranil
Lovely wing pose , HA and tail , BG looks good
If mine I may bosst contrast
TFS

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Cool pose, complementing BG and stare. I would give it a bit more room at the top and would try if sharpening the bird more brings out noise.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

killer pose,eye contact and beautiful wing position!

[denise ippolito]

Beautiful pose Indranil. I like the intense stare, beautiful BG colors.Congrats.

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Great stare and pose with the fanned tail. Nice background. Perhaps some more space on top. JR

[Indranil Sircar]

Thanks for all the feedback. Appreciate it a lot. Agree on the space requirement on the top and the more sharpening.