Cooper's Hawk

[Alan Murphy]

Cooper's Hawk

Upper Texas Coast

D3, 400, ISO 800, f8, 1/2500.

One from last week.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

You need to do more of this Alan...just for our sake at least.

Gorgeous dorsal view. perfect head angle. nice catchlight. The entire bird being sharp makes this image a winner.

KD

[arash_hazeghi]

Perfect alan, fanned tailed perfect wing position and head angle and sharp, what else can you ask for?

[Malcolm Benn]

Great view and angle, beautiful .. I'm just curious why you used ISO 800?

[Harshad Barve]

Amazing shot Alan ,
Lovely wing and tail pose , super expo and details
TFS

[david cramer]

Great detail, sharpness, and out of the park pose. Is their coloring this dull or is more saturation needed?

[Alan Murphy]

Great view and angle, beautiful .. I'm just curious why you used ISO 800?

Hey Malcom, ISO 800 on a D3 is very clean and allows fast shutter speeds for flifght shots. Hope that helps.

[Alan Murphy]

Great detail, sharpness, and out of the park pose. Is their coloring this dull or is more saturation needed?

I just recalibrated my monitor so it could use more saturation. Thanks.

[Ofer Levy]

Beautiful Alan! Maybe slightly more sharpening but it can only be my rapidly deteriorating eye sight.
Cheers,
Ofer

[Malcolm Benn]

Hey Malcom, ISO 800 on a D3 is very clean and allows fast shutter speeds for flifght shots. Hope that helps.

Thanks Alan .. I was just thinking that ISO 800 was pushing the envelope but if the D3 is that clean then why not :) ..... wish my 50D could do that :)

[Betsie Storm]

Alan All said already but wanted to add my vote for the image; 'clean & crsip' comes to mind. Thanks for sharing.

[John Ippolito]

Beautiful fantail and wing pose, Alan. Excellent detail. A little more saturation as mentioned. Excellent image.

[Marina Scarr]

This is one of the most perfect wing and tail spreads I have ever seen. Love the crop and the HA. I agree with David on a bit more pop of the yellows and reds for the browns.

[Glenda Simmons]

Wow! love that intent look...you just know he is focused in on something...hopefully not one of your pretty songbirds!

[Kiran Poonacha]

Just wow to this Alan Bhai, great light details and the tail spread makes this.. congrats..