Red-Tailed Hawk

[Jeffrey Hanna]

I watched this RT hunt from a telephone line before swooping right in front of my car to grab a rodent. I like the top side view although it is a decent crop and I removed the telephone line. The one really neat thing I noticed from my burst is that no matter what the body orientation, the head is always in exactly the same position in each frame. I layered them all on top of each other and can't tell the difference. Please critique!

D300, 200-400VR, ISO 400, 1/800s @ f/8, SB800 & BB -1.7, hand held

[Fabs Forns]

The pose is great! You even have decent eye contact. I find it a little dark, no idea why you would underexpose so much for a dark bird in the air.

[Maxis Gamez]

Love the pose and look. The Hawk looks dark in my monitor. Curves will fix that. Good capture!

[Sid Garige]

Agree with darkness.

[Juan Aragonés]

Hi Jeffrey, I subscribe the comments made by other forum members. Here is a reprecessed version of your excelent image. Some selective sharpening on the bird, levels adjustment to increase contrast and slight saturation increase. Hope you like this one.
I am sure that if you work in the original file in the way that some other members suggested you will have a better result :)

[Paul Pagano]

Juan's repost is very nice. I have this habit of underexposing stuff too....

[Jeffrey Hanna]

I agree it looks awful dark (and soft) on my work monitor. Thanks for the repost it looks much better, thanks!

[Glenn Bartley]

Nicely done and a great repost by Juan.