Harrier

Gallery: AvianPosted March 2, 2011237 views14 comments

Nikon D300s
600mm w/1.4 tc (850mm)
F/7.1
SS 1/1000
ISO 400
Exp Pgrm Manual
Exp Mode Manual
Metering Mode Pattern
White Balance Sunny
Tripod w/wimberly head

I want to take the time to thank Richard Ditch for helping me with a workflow that allows me to upload images correctly. My previous posts have all been very, very small files. Richard brought this to my attention and helped me with some processing issues that I've had in the past. Hopefully this post is closer to the maximum allowable sizes than my previous posts have been. Thank you very much Richard.

Let's hope this works!
Any comments, critiques or suggestions are always appreciated. Please see larger version. Thanks for looking.

Comments

14 comments

Comment posted by Luke Ormand on March 2, 2011 at 7:32 PM

Yikes that's good... perfect detail and exposure and a great pose... I just wish the head was turned slightly different so you could see the face a bit better. I'll be posting a Harrier shot later but I don't think it compares to this.

- Luke

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

Comment posted by David Haynes on March 2, 2011 at 7:38 PM

Luke, I look forward to seeing your Harrier Post. Thanks for the comments.

Registered on February 20, 2010, 110 Posts, 1511 Comments

Comment posted by wade pettitt on March 2, 2011 at 7:43 PM

David , this is really nice. I like the wing position and the exposure and light are perfect. i to wish for a different head position, but is nice as posted.Its always cool when fellow npners help out others, so kudos to richard for his help.

Registered on May 6, 2009, 184 Posts, 471 Comments

Comment posted by Harry Harris on March 2, 2011 at 8:25 PM

David, you drilled another one. You know how I like flight shots with the back of the raptor presented. Love it. Just a thought, you might try and bring in the right side and extend the bottom because that is the way the bird is looking.

HH

Registered on August 2, 2010, 169 Posts, 741 Comments

Comment posted by Gary Marquart on March 2, 2011 at 8:30 PM

Nice flight shot David, and a different kind of Harrier flight shot than I'm accustomed to seeing. I'm curious how much of a crop this is, I like the pose, sharpness and background. My only nit is (and it's not a biggie ) the white of it's rump appears to be pretty hot. I can see how getting this exposure just right while showing the white would be tricky much like a bald eagle.

Registered on October 24, 2009, 126 Posts, 799 Comments

Comment posted by Joel DeYoung on March 2, 2011 at 8:34 PM

Wow nice job David. Wonderful action shot. Lots of detail and good color. Well done.

Registered on July 12, 2009, 92 Posts, 1074 Comments

Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on March 2, 2011 at 8:41 PM

I like the pose and the bg. A little work on the whites on the tail and maybe sharpening up that eye a bit would make this perfect. Sharon

Registered on November 1, 2003, 392 Posts, 4810 Comments

Comment posted by Simon Bennett on March 2, 2011 at 9:33 PM

Interesting flight pose that gives a great view of the upperparts.

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

Comment posted by Rob Drummond on March 3, 2011 at 3:45 AM

Great capture of the banking turn David

cheers
Rob

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

Comment posted by Karen Summers on March 3, 2011 at 6:12 AM

I think its a lovely shot great pose and you can see the eye just enough a great bird to photograph I bet

Registered on December 3, 2009, 83 Posts, 818 Comments

Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on March 3, 2011 at 11:15 AM

David, nice colors and detial on tis one. I also wish a different HA was there, but not much you can do about that. I am not sure about the crop....I would have to see them side by side, but maybe a vertical would look nice on this?

Registered on June 19, 2008, 1005 Posts, 8028 Comments

Comment posted by KC Choo on March 3, 2011 at 11:23 AM

Very good, although I also might give a vertical crop a try.

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

Comment posted by Mia McPherson on March 3, 2011 at 9:05 PM

David,

Great pose and background, the head angle doesn't bother me as most of the time harriers are looking at the ground for their prey. Thi whites of the rump are hot and if you shot this in RAW you may be able to bring those down. I wouldn't expect to see much detail there because of the nature of the close knit rump feathers but it might help to bring them down.

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

Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on March 3, 2011 at 10:20 PM

That's a very good flight shot, David. Nice detail in the back and wings. The head turn is exactly what Harriers do; it doesn't bother me at all. The white butt band is quite hot, though. As Mia suggests, if you have the image in RAW you might try to re-process to recover some detail. When photographing male harriers in bright light, I've found I have to drop a 1ev to avoid blowing that white band.

Registered on August 28, 2006, 1240 Posts, 8506 Comments