Kestrel

Discussion

14 replies

Posted by Mike Andrews on December 9, 2009 at 1:54 PM

This guy was hunting insects on the floor, and kept interchanging between this post and the roadway. At one point he ran towards me, stopping about 5 metres away. I couldn’t get him in the frame with the 600mm., as he was too close. This shot was chosen because I liked the diffuse bg, and it looked much cleaner than the road.

All C&C welcome.

Nikon D300 with 600/F4. 1/100th sec. F7.1, ISO 400. EV 0. FF and HH from the window of the van.

Posted by John Robinson on December 9, 2009 at 2:26 PM

Yes I'll go with that. Great background too.
Always one of my favourite poses -three quarter back on.- not always easy.
Plenty of space up to for writing maybe ??

JohnR

Posted by Liam Pauling on December 9, 2009 at 2:38 PM

Brilliant shot, great to see the detail in the feathers. I wish I could get the close...

liam.

Posted by Craig Jones on December 9, 2009 at 2:42 PM

Lovely image Mike and nothing wrong with this beauty IMO,love the layered colours of the BG and the detail is very good,lovely image

Posted by Kim Connolly on December 9, 2009 at 3:00 PM

It is a beautiful shot, a lovely pose too.

Posted by Edwin kats on December 9, 2009 at 3:38 PM

Lovely shot Mike. Maybe a bit less saturation. But that's just my personal taste.

Well done.

Edwin Kats

Posted by Stephen Kaluski on December 9, 2009 at 3:52 PM

Nice one Mike, looks like you nailed it in the camera, reducing PP time and a cleaner file. Agree with Edwin about the saturation, as the green goes look a tight bright

Steve

Posted by Major Gilbert on December 9, 2009 at 4:04 PM

Good all round image Mike.

Major.

Posted by Danny Green on December 9, 2009 at 5:23 PM

Cracking shot Mike really like this one.

Danny

Posted by Chris O'Reilly on December 9, 2009 at 6:01 PM

Great feel to this shot Mike - the bird is just doing what it does. Cracking.

Cheers,
Chris

Posted by Mark Sisson on December 9, 2009 at 10:06 PM

Hi Mike - one of the best shots I've seen from you on here

Nice pose, light, background composition and processing.

Mark

Posted by Maggie Campbell on December 10, 2009 at 8:07 AM

Beautiful shot Mike. Great detail and BG.

Posted by Ian Macdermott on December 10, 2009 at 10:43 AM

Hi Mike

nice pose and background

Posted by David Sewell on December 11, 2009 at 5:45 AM

Great image, I really like that pose.

David

Posted by Mike Andrews on December 11, 2009 at 6:02 AM

Thanks for all the kind comments folks.

I guess I may as well pack up photography now - I can't see me getting higher praise than this in the future.