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Posted by David Sewell on April 8, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Raven
When I moved to Kent in the mid eighties, both peregrine and raven were classed as extinct breeding birds, although both cropped up occasionally in winter. Thirty years later and both are re-established as breeding birds in the county. You have seen the peregrines, here is a raven taken with them during one of my photo sessions.

The exif information on the photo is a little suspect, but as best I remember it was:

Nikon D300, 300mm f2.8 Nikon, 1.7x Nikon converter, 200 ISO, 1/1600th @ f6.3

Thanks for looking.

David
Posted by Rene de Heer on April 8, 2012 at 9:32 AM
Nice image, blacks look well exposed,
Rene de Heer
Posted by Stephen Kaluski on April 8, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Hi David, like the 'banking' angle on this and the room around the subject. Perhaps some colour removal from the subject ie blue, or try to neutralise the colour within the Raven based on the larger version may help a little? Just a thought.

A difficult subject to get the detail out from and you have done very well.

TFS
Steve
Posted by Robert Lawrence on April 8, 2012 at 2:43 PM
Better seen large. Not as strong as your Peregrine images David. With the head turned towards you like that and the tail not prominent it is difficult to fully appreciate that it is a Raven.
Great that they are becoming more successful. We have quite a few down here and my neighbour reckons he gets one pinching his golfballs when he is practising in the field opposite :smile:
Posted by David Sewell on April 8, 2012 at 4:40 PM
Thanks for the comments guys. Steve, a slight drop in the blue does improve the image slightly, so thanks for that. Robert, it is not only your neighbour who gets his golf balls pinched. The crows around here do it as well, my wife thinks they do it just to spite her, but my guess is that they mistake them for eggs.

David
Posted by David Taylor on April 8, 2012 at 4:55 PM
A difficult capture, well executed, IMHO. I like the diagonal positioning of the subject.

:toast: :toast: :toast: :jump:
Posted by Bob Johnson on April 9, 2012 at 8:12 AM
Looks fine to me David :wink:

Bob :smile:
Posted by Nick Mckeown on April 9, 2012 at 3:31 PM
Nice shot of a Raven although looks slightly soft in the larger version. Have them nesting in a crag at the back of the village just now.

Nick. :wavey:
Posted by keith mitchell on April 9, 2012 at 3:39 PM
David it looks very good to me.

Keith. :smile:
Posted by Andy Shepherd on April 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM

This is a species of bird I don't have a shot of, so congrats on this one, David. Re the comp, just needs to be a little further to the right for me.

Andy... :wavey:
Posted by Sandra Hendrikse on April 10, 2012 at 5:33 AM
The composition is a bit central but other than that a fine flight shot (especially the larger version).