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    Default Here today, gone tomorrow

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    I photographed this young Red-tailed Hawk in the nest tree yesterday. Today he has flown the coop! Good luck to him.

    Location: just a few miles from my home in the northern Colorado Rocky Mountains.

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    nice pose and a good catch, the shooting angle is a bit steep looks like there are some processing artifacts in the borders of the sky region and the pine needles.
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    Nancy:

    Good summary by Arash. The halo around the needles is rather pronounced in some areas, and some around the birds head as well.

    Light angle well off to the left made the exposure a challenge, fill flash would have evened it out a bit, and put some light on the birds eye.

    Neat to see the young ones grow so fast.

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    I agree with Arash. Not the best light either. Still a great sighting, and if you are lucky he may afford you a great opportunity in the near future (young hawks can be tolerant and curious of people).

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    I also wondered about the halos around the pine needles. Only processing on the BG was some routine NR and small amount of curves. Any ideas?

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    Nancy:

    I am not sure what caused your halos. Certainly curves adjustments shouldn't. Did you do any masking when you did your noise reduction?

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    I only masked the bird. The halos seemed to be there from the start. :2 Maybe I'll start processing all over and see if it happens again.

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