Taken at the Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve in Newport Beach, CA last February. I would have liked a better wing angle (to show more of the head), but I was happy to get such a close shot of this bird (this is about a 50% crop).
Canon 7D with the 400mm f/5.6 lens. Manual; f/8; 1/1600sec; ISO 800.
Standard PP, except I improved the originally-bland sky color using a Selective Color adjustment layer.
Thanks for looking,
John
PLEASE NOTE: This image is not posting properly. Don't know what the problem is, but the posted image is smaller than the original and is blurred.
Last edited by John Guastella; 10-22-2010 at 01:19 PM.
Reason: Problem with image post
John, very nice "topside" view. I think (may have) seen the same bird there on more than one occasion, but never that close up . . . It looks a little blurred to me, as well.
Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Something's definitely wrong on my end. When I view the image within the thread using either Firefox or Safari, it is about 1/3 smaller than the original image I uploaded and definitely fuzzy. The image I uploaded is 1001 pixels x 800 pixels (H x V) and 127kB. The posted image is definitely smaller than that when I view it in the thread.
The image look sharp here too. My only wish is that the near wing were angled down to present a nice dorsal view. I am pretty sure that this is a youngster.
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