Theme: Red Tailed Hawk at 1000mm

[Herb Houghton]

This is an older shot from the Wallkill River NWR. 1D mark III, 500 f4, 2x teleconverter, iso 1250, f9, 1/2000, aperture priority. This day was overcast with just ambient light.

Herb


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[Randy Stout]

Herb:

Def. in your face, down the barrel too!
Strong impact on the viewer, effective cropping

Some mild noise showing throughout the image, but not objectionable for a film guy like me.

I love the detail in the small feathers on each side of the bill.

Cheers

Randy

[Doug Brown]

Super eye contact Herb. Not easy to track a BIF at 1000mm but it looks like you did a good job here. I might run a little extra sharpening on the bird.

[Joel Eade]

Very interesting and unusual perspective, darn good BIF at 1000mm !!!

[Dumay de Boulle]

Lovely eye contact and the pose is great..agree re sharpening the head.