immature white-tailed kite landing

[Phil Seu]

d300, 600vr, f/7.1, 1/1600, iso 400, manual exposure. NR applied to BG.

[Arthur Morris]

I'd love to see more of the upper surface of the near but but otherwise this one is PMP, pretty much perfect. Love the hanging talons and the sharpness and the tree line BKGR. And the head angle is perfect too. You might wish to use a large 50% Clone Stamp Tool to eliminate the blue opening in the lower tree BKGR.

[Troy Lim]

Phil, nice shot, like the hanging talons like Artie said.
Have you tried toning down the yellows on the legs a bit?

[Arthur Morris]

If anything, the legs could use a Linear Burn, possibly as much as 50%.

[Greg Basco]

Phil, nice capture. I'm guessing these are quite hard to get in flight. I like the composition quite a bit and agree about the yellow legs.

Cheers,
Greg Basco

[Ofer Levy]

Excellent shot!

[Jim Neiger]

Very nice! I love the in flight pose with legs down and the red eye stands out nicely. The bg is nice too. The legs do seem slightly overexposed, but not blown, so that is easily fixed in a number of ways.