6,000th post: Caracara in Some Nice Light

[Doug Brown]

From last week's Florida trip. This was taken on a highway one morning. We were driving and noticed a deer that had been struck by a car and killed. There were a number of birds feeding on the carcass. We stopped and noticed a Caracara juvenile in a tree. After waiting a couple of minutes, the Caracara descended from the tree to join in the feast. This image was taken as the bird flew to the deer.



Canon 1D Mark IV, 500mm 1.4x, f/5.6, 1/1250, ISO 800, manual exposure, hand held

[Grace Scalzo]

Lovely eye contact and light. Congrats on 6000!

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Congrats on 6K. I always find your photos enjoyable and your critiques very helpful. What an image to celebrate it with. Great light and so is the pose.

[Kurtis Diffenbaugh]

Great lighting and sharpness. (So sharp I'm kind afraid to get close to the monitor for fear of getting cut from those talons.) I really like the DOF and the background colors, I think they really work well with the color of the Caracara.

Also, congrats on the 6k posts.

[Marina Scarr]

Stunning light and capture! Glad you had such good luck during your trip. Congrats on your 6000 and thank you for all the helpful feedback.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Congratulations! Very nice light and excellent flight pose.
The eye contact makes it even better. Hope to see many more
of your excellent images.

[Stu Bowie]

Hey Doug, congrats on your milestone. You have a little catching to do. ;) Just love the light and colours in this, and you certainly nailed the sharpness. Well done.

[arash_hazeghi]

what a beautiful shot to celebrate, everything is perfect. Congrats

If you have time, would you mind posting a 100% crop of this beauty?

[Gal Shon]

Lighting makes this one a real gem.
Pose, sharpness and eye contact adds to a stunning image.

[david cramer]

Beautiful light and good details. Looks like the Mk IV focuses pretty good.

[Willem Verboom]

Very nice shot!! Light is beautiful in this picture. Very good compo and detail .

Willem

[Doug Brown]

This image was taken the morning that I was having problems with the connection between the 500 and the 1.4x. My best focus area in this image was on the talons, not the eye, but the head sharpened up nicely in post. Here's a 100% crop of the RAW file Arash.

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks Doug, looking forward to your owl shots!

[Danny Laredo]

Congrats Doug. Sweet flight image. Love the light and pose you captured.

[Peter Coskun]

Beautiful image here. The bird is nice and sharp, well exposed and a great catchlight you caught here. The lighting could not have been better

[Paul Lagasi]

Congrats and what a nice image..bird and background match nicely...thanks for all the help over the last few years...

[Sid Garige]

One killer image Doug. Fantastic light.

[Peter Hawrylyshyn]

Doug
I can't add anything to what hasn't been said above about a great pic
Congrat's on 6000 and thanks for all your helpful advice/expertise

[Karl Egressy]

Beutiful image to celebrate the 6000th posting with, Doug. Congratulations.

[Jim Crosswell]

Great detailed and sharp flight capture Doug! Congrats on your 6k post too.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Big congrats Bhai, you have been a great teacher and help.. may be be blessed with many more such beauties, to fullfill this passion...

[Harshad Barve]

Hi Doug
Big congrats on 6k and all of the post made by you were so informative
Stunner image all the way to celebrate milestone
TFS

[D. Robert Franz]

Love the light here Doug, well done....