Kestrel

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11 replies

Posted by Mark Green on February 6, 2010 at 10:57 AM

My Local patch was so very quiet this morning, hardly any birds around, including all the common ones.
This kestrel didnt seem to want to fly i walked around him and he was quite content. this is my first decent shot of one of these birds.

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Mark.G

Posted by Kim Connolly on February 6, 2010 at 1:26 PM

A lovely shot - it's amazing he didn't fly off!

Posted by Mike Acreman on February 6, 2010 at 3:59 PM

yes you lucky he didn`t fly off, normaly you can`t get within 100 yards of them well taken kim

Posted by Brian Davis on February 6, 2010 at 5:25 PM

Very nice, lucky he sat for you.

Posted by Jeroen Stel on February 7, 2010 at 5:09 AM

A bit of shadow/highlight and curves to subject and BG improves this one quite a bit i think (see changed version).
Lovely shot anyway!

greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Posted by Mark Green on February 7, 2010 at 5:15 AM

Cheers, Jeroen, Ill have a play with the RAW file, i forget sometimes what tools we have at our disposal to improve the pictures we take :-)

Mark.G

Posted by Karen Summers on February 7, 2010 at 5:34 AM

good capture but I feel the edit looks a bit un-natural

Posted by John Chapman on February 7, 2010 at 10:16 AM

Hi Mark, great capture and I prefer the second posting.

Posted by Mike Andrews on February 7, 2010 at 12:55 PM

Certainly more detail in the second, but I think somewhere between the two will be for me.

Good shot Mark.

Posted by Guy Rogers on February 7, 2010 at 1:10 PM

Hello Mark.

Well done and a good capture cant even get close to one my self.

Posted by Ian Macdermott on February 7, 2010 at 1:51 PM

HI Mark

well done on getting so close

A very nice shot which as Jeroen has shown can be improved upon.

Posted by Justin on February 7, 2010 at 4:06 PM

A decent, uncluttered portrait. Somewhere between the original and the repost for me.