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Buzzard in action (c)

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Posted by Vincent Jones on November 20, 2008 at 8:11 PM
Buzzard in action (c)
Here is a shot taken today whilst out training Pringle the Buzzard. Here he can be seen being put through his paces whilst getting used to the camera kit. Performing infront of cameras will be great for him, mentally lol plus being infront of cameras will form part of his job role so he can help earn some funds to support projects to help his wild cousins.

Thanks for looking

(c) in title for captive bred

D2X
200mm F2 VR
ISO 200
F2
1/3000th sec
Handheld

Slight crop to frame & a small bit of cloning to take out the trailing end of his flying jesses.
Posted by Major Gilbert on November 21, 2008 at 2:30 AM
It looks like that 200mm f2 works well Vincent. Nice complimentary BG to go with the bird. :toast:

Major.
Posted by Mark Fellowes on November 21, 2008 at 3:04 AM
Beautifully caught with bags of detail. Tempted to suggest that the pale twig mid-bottom could be cloned out, but I might get burned as a heretic :biggrin:

:toast:

Mark
Posted by Nick on November 21, 2008 at 3:32 AM
Mark, Looking at it the 'pale twig' is Pringle's creance line - his safety line.

Good luck with the training Vince. Light looks nice on him.

Posted by Vincent Jones on November 21, 2008 at 5:12 AM
Thanks all, the pale twig I was going to clone out but left it in to create a huge debate :biggrin: :jump: lol.

Nick, please stand corrected:biggrin: Its not the training line, training line got removed last week & in about another weeks time he will have the jesses removed too during flying. Nothing worse than trying to clone out jesses :rolleyes:

Regarding light, yesterday we had some great light conditions for a change. :jump:

Vince
Posted by kevin Treadwell on November 21, 2008 at 5:46 AM
Super flight shot Vince, I have a real soft spot for these birds. Wonderful colour and detail.

Kevin
Posted by David Kjaer on November 21, 2008 at 6:02 AM
Hi Vince

Cracking flight shot in nice light!

David :toast:
Posted by Brian Phipps on November 21, 2008 at 7:53 AM
Hi Vince,

Very nice indeed!
Posted by John Lee on November 21, 2008 at 7:56 AM
Great bird in great light with a lovely complementary background. Would leave the twig but have burned it a bit to take the edge off the brightness.

John Lee
Posted by Bertl Menegoni on November 21, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Like the brown tones in this picture, very fine light and good detail in the feathers.
have fun,
Bertl
Posted by Guy Rogers on November 21, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Hello Vincent.

Lovely flight shot.

Love the colours between the bird and the background, and the top of the hedge makes a nice base to the image.

I think I would be cloning out the twig, but I must admit I also thought it was a traing line at first.

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
Posted by Ian Mason on November 21, 2008 at 5:21 PM
The detail in this is fantastic!
Posted by Vincent Jones on November 21, 2008 at 5:34 PM
Hi folks :wavey:

Here is the full frame shot showing the jesses, this is more of less untouched except for resizing for web & a bit of sharpening using CS3

See, no training line :jump: :biggrin:
Posted by Paul Inglis on November 21, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Hi Vince,
I actually prefer the repost! Clone out the jesses! :jump:
It does look like a training line though! :wink:
Never mind, have a cool beer! I am! :cool: :biggrin:
:toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Rene de Heer on November 22, 2008 at 11:13 AM
Repost looks better to me as well. very nice light Vincent and good technicals as well.
Rene de Heer