Red Kite

[Mark Medcalf]

Took this in Galloway Forest area of South West Scotland. The sun popped out between the clouds for about 5 mins, so caught this guy.
Canon 40d
Canon 400mm f5.6 lens

Av f6.3
Shutter: 1/400sec
ISO 400

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the sharpness, eye contact and BG. I wish the wings were all the way up or down and some of the whites are overexposed. I might have raised the ISO for higher shutter speed.

[Jan Fourie]

nice posture but SS a bit too low to get better wingblur
jan

[Katie Rupp]

Hi Mark, technicals aside, I think you've perfectly captured the feeling of the sun-just-popped-out. I quite like it.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Mark, I liked the rim light here a lot. Agree with Axel...wing position is not ideal. The crop is very good and sharp where it counts. Loved that eye.

[Markus Jais]

I agree with Axel on all this points.
You have great light in this shot and a beautiful background.
Keep the kite images coming!

Markus