Pale Chanting Goshawk

[Ken Watkins]

This was taken in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa, 19th June 2011

EOS 1D MkIV

500mm F4 is hand-held

F8, ISO 400, 1/2500

[Mital Patel]

Ken

This is a beautiful image and you got it cleanly. The only nit with me is the compo. tight on left compared to space available on all other 3 parts.

[yogesh_puranik]

wow..i just liked this bird..and image is simple but powerful..TFS

[Rene Quenneville]

Beautiful image. Colors and sharpness are well rendered. I agree with Mital about the comp. The bird is a little too much to the left. If you cannot recrop it, You could add canvas to the left. With a solid color background like this, it would be easy to do.

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks everybody, cropping is one of my major failures, looking at this again it is clearly too tight on the LHS, but luckily easily rectified.

[Josh Clark]

Beautiful shot. I am ok with the cropping. I like the back view of the bird with the nice look back pose that you captured, nicely done. Nice detail throughout the feathers.

[arash_hazeghi]

great portrait of a handsome bird, some NR on the BG will help.

[Karl Egressy]

Beautiful raptor. Nice perch, great blue sky and nice looking back over the shoulder pose.
You have all the ingredients of a beauty shot.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Ken, I really like this one a lot. The 'back to us with head turn' is such a nice pose. incredibly beautiful bird.

Agree that some NR is needed on the BG and some room on LHS.