Sandhill crane -Albuquerque

[gary rouleau]

Corn fields around Albuquerque usually have plenty of sandhills. The open spaces on the west side of the Rio Grande is a good place to start.
I cloned out a sandhill head behind this guy.

Canon MarkIIn
Lens 600mm f/4
ISO 100 f/4.0 1/2000

Comments?
cheers
gary

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the angle, soft light, eye contact and am wondering what the BG is. I might sharpen the bird a tad more. ISO 200 would have allowed you to stop down a little.

[Suzanne Huot]

Looks like you caught this with the best possible lighting conditions for good detail under the wings ,Beautiful BIF image

[Ilija Dukovski]

Nice pose and great feather details, agree about the sharpening with Axel.

[gary rouleau]

Axel, the background was a snow cloud which passed through town.

gary

[Marc Mol]

Great inflight pose and lighting Gary. Would also benefit with a round of USM.

I cloned out a sandhill head behind this guy.

That's not the dark grey clone mark I can see behind the Crane's feet is it?

[Desmond Chan]

Agree to the above comments. Looks kind of dark on my monitor so wonder if a little bit of brightening would help.

[arash_hazeghi]

One very nice flight pose, great HA and wing position. As presented it is dark and needs brightening. Well done.

[Ben Egbert]

Looking good. Great background, I usually get OOF cornfield stubble. I think I see where you cloned, but only because you mentioned it. The darker area just behind the feet? If not, ignore my comment. Everything else is fine.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Lovely image. Great wing details and they are up! I would just lighten the image a tad.