Halloween Harrier

[John Blumenkamp]

Found a few harriers Saturday morning out at Farmington Bay WMA here in northern Utah... your comments and critique are greatly appreciated... thanks!

7D w/ 500 f/4 +1.4TC
1/3200 f/6.3 iso400
handheld

Thanks,
John

[Harshad Barve]

one fabulous image John
lovely wing pose and eye contact ,
Dual colored BG works very well here
TFS

[Brian Barcelos]

Nice sharpness and I love the two tone BG. Wing position not too bad but wished it didn't intersect with his head, I'd also like more room to the right. Looks like Utah is a great place to find Raptors. Congrats

[arash_hazeghi]

Nice Jon, love the facial expression and dual tone BG here.

[Stu Bowie]

I like the fight angle, together with the light and colours. I would maybe selectively sharpen him a tad. Killer BG John.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Nice light, details and the two tone BG works well.. congrats..

[Doug Brown]

Love the warm light and that classic two-tone BG. I might have stopped down to f/7.1 or f/8, as it seems you had plenty of light. I would add some canvas to the right of the bird. You appear to have a couple of dust bunnies on your sensor. Overall a nice image John!

[John Blumenkamp]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

Doug... I took a look at the sequence, and those 'bunnies' may have been some distant birds, as the exact same location on the sensor in the other images in the sequence do not show the same blips.

Here is new processed version, with more on the right, which was actually captured on the origianal frame...

[Mike Lentz]

You have the BG rule of thirds dialed in and a sweet BG to boot!
The low flight path of the bird is nice as well! Wish it were my image. :)

[Randy Stout]

John:

Lovely colors, but I am with Stuart here. On my monitor, the eye/face isn't critically sharp, esp. on the repost.
Certainly shouldn't be a shutter speed issue, I wonder about where you focus point was? Both the wings look shaper to me than the head.

Randy