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Common Buzzard

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Posted by Simon Phillpotts on July 21, 2009 at 7:28 AM
Common Buzzard
This image came from a Black Grouse session. The Buzzard must have been attracted by the activity and just dropped into the middle of the Lek. The Grouse flew away but returned within about 30 seconds to carry on as before. The buzzard must not have been seen as much of a threat after the initial shock. After a minute or so looking around off it went (hotly pursued by mobbing Curlews). I think I was more shocked than the Grouse having this beautiful bird land in front of the hide at 5am, it certainly woke me up :biggrin:

1D3 + 300mm & 1.4x TC, ISO 1600 1/125 sec @ f/5 Taken from hide.

Thanks for looking

Simon :wavey:
Posted by Rene de Heer on July 21, 2009 at 7:30 AM
Hi SImon, very nice. Like the compostion, i would be tempted to clone out the oof twigs but no big deal!
Rene de Heer
Posted by Justin on July 21, 2009 at 7:34 AM
A moment well captured. :toast:
Posted by John Robinson on July 21, 2009 at 7:38 AM
Good stuff.
JohnR
Posted by Craig Jones on July 21, 2009 at 7:50 AM
Beautiful portrait,great detail, well caught :wink: :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Andy Astbury on July 21, 2009 at 7:57 AM
Nice shot Simon - like Rene I think I'd have to remove the dead stalks with the clone tool, but it's only a minor thing :wavey:
Posted by Ian Macdermott on July 21, 2009 at 8:15 AM
Very nice portrait Simon :smile:

I am not overly bothered by the twigs as they do not take my attention from the bird.



Ian
Posted by Bob Cox on July 21, 2009 at 8:15 AM
What a bird ,nice shot.

Bob.
Posted by David Kjaer on July 21, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Very nice close-up and a great pose!

David :toast:
Posted by Kim Connolly on July 21, 2009 at 11:15 AM
A beautiful composition, he looks really majestic!!
Posted by Ian Mason on July 21, 2009 at 3:15 PM
As good a buzzard shot as I've seen - looks very relaxed. My son thinks it might be a bit bright and he has me thinking that now - not sure.
Posted by Drew Mellowship on July 21, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Very nice image, agree with some nits above, the oof grass and a tad, only a tad bright. Otherwise a a nice composition that works really well.

Drew :smile:
Posted by Brett Lewis on July 22, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Another of my favourite birds Simon and you've captured it very well. I would tone down the gamma via the exposure setting in PS just a little to give a bit more depth in the colours. Nice work.

Brett :toast: :toast:
Posted by Simon Phillpotts on July 22, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Thanks for the comments all. I agree that it is a tad on the bright side. Difficult to know how far to take it when it was so murky originally (5am). I over-egged it a bit for web-presentation but its easily dropped back.

Cheers,
Simon
Posted by Fran French on July 23, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Great portrait Simon, I would love an image like this in my p/f!

Fran :toast: