Peregrine Falcon

[Herb Houghton]

This shot was taken from atop the Palisades Cliffs along the Hudson River, lying flat and handholding the lens on a downward angle towards it's perch.
1D mark III, 800 f5.6 plus 1.4x, 1120mm, f10, 1/800, iso 800

Herb Houghton
herbhoughton.com

[John Chardine]

This is a simple, elegant image Herb. The BG and soft light are beautiful. I think a couple of things might help- on my monitor the image looks like it needs a bit of a contrast boost (and it's a Mac monitor which if anything shows more contrast than many I see). Also I think another round of sharpening would make the bird pop.

[Tony Whitehead]

I like the colour palette in this image. Agree with John about sharpening as the image looks soft as presented. Opening the aperture a stop would have gained a stop of SS and reduced the risk of motion blur being a factor in softness

[Steve Maxson]

I would agree completely with John's comments above. This is a very nice image that could be even stronger with a few tweaks. :)

[Herb Houghton]

Thanks for the comments. I now added contrast and some sharpening too.

[arash_hazeghi]

nice perch BG and eye contact, agree with all comments, repost is an improvement, would use smaller radius for sharpening, try SM (80,0.5,0)

[John Chardine]

I like the repost Herb. With Quickmasking you can easily mask out the BG when you run sharpening, that way not sharpening the noise.

[Tony Whitehead]

Definitely an improvment, Herb. Good advice on masking the BG from John.

[Manjesh Lingamurthy]

Second image is excellent. Pleasing background, head angle and tonal details.

Manjesh

[Phil Seu]

nice image of a difficult subject. bird looks oversharpened on repost. would prefer something in between first and second

[Herb Houghton]

I like the repost Herb. With Quickmasking you can easily mask out the BG when you run sharpening, that way not sharpening the noise.

Thanks John. I used a magnetic lasso and just sharpened the perch and bird, or so I thought. I'm unfamiliar with quickmask, but I will look into it now. :)