Pigeon flight.

[Stu Bowie]

I hoped for more ss, but at this location, at certain angles, one loses the light, thus reducing ss. I liked the angle here, and interesting to see the difference in colour of the head and neck, compared to the wings. You can see where the wings form. Taken at a local birding spot in Pretoria last weekend.

Canon 50D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/800
F/5.6
ISO 640

Exp Comp +0.33
Hand held.

[Arthur Morris]

Killer sharp with loverly BKGR. Great dorsal view of the far wing and the back. Head angle and spread tail are right on.

[Randy Stout]

Stuart:

Artie hit the high points, really nice banking pose, esp the flared tail. Great eye contact with this head tilt.

Cheers

Randy

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Not an easy bird to catch in flight! very good eye contact and the spreaded wings and tail makes this one for me.

[Jim Crosswell]

Great flight image Stuart! Nice and sharp with clean BG, well done.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

beautiful details,eye contact,bg!!!

[Tony Whitehead]

Super BG and pose, Stu. The thing that is confusing me with this image is that critical sharpness seems to be on primaries of the far wing. The eye looks sharp but the beak, cere and forehead all look a bit soft.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I see Tony's point about the face. I love the eye and nack though. Very beautiful image, and the BG is quite striking for this flight image. WTG!!

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks a stack for the feedback guys.

Tony, just had a look where the focussing point was - between the far wing and tip of the tail feathers.

[Ben_Sadd]

Really love the background on this great image. It gave me a practice plan for the weekends that I am stuck in the city - pigeons in the central squares - although I doubt I can get such a background there. I do agree the beak seems a bit soft, especially relative to the close sharp eye.

[James Salywoda]

Excellent! Nice top side view and pretty background.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Loved the light, good eye contact, wingspread, and details.. the over the top view makes this Bhai..

[Stu Bowie]

Thank you all for the kind comments. Much appreciated.

[Danny Laredo]

Killer pose and BG. Love the eye contact.

[denise ippolito]

Stuart, Nice flight pose and sharp eye. Beautiful BG colors. Nicely done.:)

[Stu Bowie]

Danny, Denise, thanks for looking and for your comments.