Hen Harrier Part II

[Jeroen Stel]

Another day spent at the Hen Harriers but this time i was lucky to capture them in a bit more light. Have loads of shots still laying around to process but let's start with this one..

greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Canon Eos 1D Mark IV
Shutter speed: 1/3200 sec
Aperture: F 5.6
Exposure mode: AV
Exposure compensation: -2/3
Flash:no
Flash exposure compensation:
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: AI Focus
ISO: 500
Lens: Canon 600mm F4
Focal length:780 mm
AF mode: Auto Focus
On beanbag from car window
Levels/Curves/USM/Contrast/Saturation/Noise Ninja/Home stewed Sharpening-mix/ Adobe Photoshop CS5

[Jeff Sorbie]

Great in flight catch Jeroen. BG is great and I love the color and light. The bird is nice and sharp.

[Arthur Morris]

Sharp with a nice wingspread and a good exposure. Did you purposely leave it so skewed??? It needs a huge CCW rotation.

[Ofer Levy]

Nice to see your posting Jeroen! Sweet shot! Agree about the huge CCW rotation.

[Craig Brelsford]

Groetjes, Jeroen! I've got no problem with the skewed angle, assuming you knew what you were up to. Why not experiment? I'm less excited about the discordance between the OOF BG and the bird and foreground in focus. The transition from in-focus to OOF is abrupt; I see a thin smudge running up the photo toward 2 o'clock; is imperfect Photoshoppery to blame?

[Herb Houghton]

This is a nice capture of the harrier. I like the subject placement. I'm confused by the CCW rotation comments. I would consider a slight CW rotation until the green grass lines became level like a horizon ? Any clarification would be greatly appreciated here.

[Jeroen Stel]

Thanks for your comments.
This image needs no rotation at all. The horizon is cropped out of the image and therefor there is no visible reference anymore but before cropping i straightened the horizon as i always do wit all my images.

If you check the reed stems wich are cut short you can still see that they are pointing upwards, so rotating this image would make the reed stems look akward.

greetings,

Jeroen Stel

[Bill Dix]

Lovely flight image. I might have wished she banked just a bit more to get more light on the left wing, but very nice as is. Rotation looks just fine to me.

[Ofer Levy]

Thanks for your comments.
This image needs no rotation at all. The horizon is cropped out of the image and therefor there is no visible reference anymore but before cropping i straightened the horizon as i always do wit all my images.

If you check the reed stems wich are cut short you can still see that they are pointing upwards, so rotating this image would make the reed stems look akward.

greetings,

Jeroen Stel

I see what you mean!