SEO

[William Currie]

Canon 7D 500F4 1.4 converter 1/200 sec F5.6 400ISO

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Nice flight image William. It does appear a little soft but perhaps that's at this size. Why not post at 1024 pixels wide and that may make a difference? Love the banking pose! Well done! :)

[Doug Brown]

Great subject and a nice BG. The bird is soft due to the shutter speed of 1/200. I posted a Crane flight shot at 1/200 today but I was going for a panning blur. If you're going for sharp and you're shooting wide open, you've got to push your ISO to get the shutter speed faster. On a subject such as this SEO, you could also underexpose a bit to gain some shutter speed.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the gliding pose, angle and soft light. Another vote for increasing the ISO for higher shutter speed and I would give it a bit more room on the left 'to fly into'.

[Bonnie Block]

Good catch, William, Nice to know you have some owls up there. Send some down here, will you?
Excellent pose---wishing for more room and a bit more sharpness. Good ideas have been mentioned.

[Kiran Poonacha]

nice pose and BG, sure would love to see a bigger image..

[David Fletcher]

Lovely flight pose William. ss has lead to some softness and worth considering how far some sharpening can help for posting at this size. Thanks for sharing.

[Tony Whitehead]

Lovely angled pose and eye contact. Was this a big crop? That may have contributed to the softness and BG noise texture at ISO400.

[William Currie]

Hi thanks for all the lovley comments this is a fairly big crop i haven/t posted for awhile so i wanted to put one up this is not one i would normally post but i like the pose and the light . I am trying to get a better flight shot of the shorty but they are hard to get and i'm using the new 7D witch is a hand full right now Thanks Brad