Soaring Red

Gallery: AvianPosted January 28, 2010193 views16 comments

Red Shouldered Hawk with glorious wings
Canon 7D 300 mm 2.8 L lens w 2/ extender
ISO 320 f5.6 @1/2500 hh
cropped to vertical from horizontal. I struggled a bit to find a good crop. Hope this works

Comments

16 comments

Comment posted by Sandipan Dutta on January 28, 2010 at 10:30 AM

Beautiful image...

Registered on March 9, 2009, 171 Posts, 493 Comments

Comment posted by Steve Balke on January 28, 2010 at 10:43 AM

The crop looks fine to me Cheryl. I agree, glorious wings....and a very menacing look!

Registered on June 18, 2009, 229 Posts, 2915 Comments

Comment posted by KC Choo on January 28, 2010 at 10:55 AM

Your crop works very well!

Registered on November 15, 2004, 519 Posts, 8278 Comments

Comment posted by István Molnár on January 28, 2010 at 12:26 PM

Nice technicals as well.
Congrats:István

Registered on January 7, 2010, 114 Posts, 704 Comments

Comment posted by Laura Stafford on January 28, 2010 at 1:43 PM

Great shot. Very nice detail too.

Laura Stafford

Registered on November 3, 2009, 52 Posts, 375 Comments

Comment posted by Simon Bennett on January 28, 2010 at 3:25 PM

Excellent, especially the banking pose and detail evident in the larger image. Crop works well.

Registered on February 4, 2007, 350 Posts, 4614 Comments

Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on January 28, 2010 at 3:51 PM

This is super nice Cheryl. The sharpness and details in the larger image are much better than the small version. I love the soaring pose and the great blue sky. Very well done.

Registered on December 6, 2008, 360 Posts, 7132 Comments

Comment posted by Wayne Willison on January 28, 2010 at 4:35 PM

I'd say you composed this very well, and good techs, too.

Registered on April 10, 2009, 292 Posts, 3967 Comments

Comment posted by Mia McPherson on January 28, 2010 at 8:01 PM

Cheryl,

I like the flight pose, the light in the bird's eye and the light on the bird, specifically the underside of the wing. Your crop works well for me.

Registered on June 25, 2007, 491 Posts, 12566 Comments

Comment posted by Ed Dubois on January 28, 2010 at 9:36 PM

I like the crop and the pose too Cheryl. If this were mine I'd play a bit with some gentle lightening of the body shadow on the wing just to bring out a little more detail.

Registered on February 22, 2005, 129 Posts, 4739 Comments

Comment posted by Luke Ormand on January 28, 2010 at 10:28 PM

Great shot with a beautiful wingspread! I've never been able to see this species, let alone get a photog like this. I think the crop works perfectly.

- Luke

Registered on February 4, 2009, 1093 Posts, 7035 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on January 28, 2010 at 11:43 PM

The crop is fine, Cheryl. Nice detail. For some reason that pinpoint highlight in the eye bothers me a little.

Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on January 29, 2010 at 3:11 AM

The small image looks deceptively soft - the large one is dead-on!
Excellent!
Sandy r

Registered on November 24, 2003, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments

Comment posted by Rob Drummond on January 29, 2010 at 3:35 AM

I was a bit dubious Cheryl after looking at the small image but the larger one in breathtaking - wonderfully detailed and perfect wing position

cheers
Rob

Registered on November 8, 2003, 617 Posts, 8267 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Olsen on January 29, 2010 at 10:49 AM

Beautiful image Cheryl.
Nice comp to show of those wonderful wings.
I'll echo the comments about the small image looking soft, but the large one is nice and sharp, and shows off the feather detail and the menacing look very well.
Congrats!!

Registered on October 19, 2006, 306 Posts, 1571 Comments

Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on February 4, 2010 at 8:48 AM

A beautiful capture, works very well !
Jagdeep Rajput

Registered on April 29, 2008, 686 Posts, 2857 Comments