Ferruginous Liftoff

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Description

There’s an area I like to visit this time of year that is likely to have a very photogenic ferruginous hawk perched on one of the old roadside utility poles for me to stop and capture. Here’s a handsome specimen I got one recent morning.

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Anything?

Technical Details

Z9, 180-600 lens, Nikon 1.4 TC, 1/3200th, f 9.0, hand held, 840mm, ISO 1250, cropped to 3987v x 2955

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Beautiful pose, Dave. It looks like you cropped it a fair amount and I think it might work even better if you added some canvas all the way around. The bird is feeling very crowded to me.

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Excellent catch, Dave! the pose is very appealing.
I agree with Dennis on a good bit more room all around. It’s always tempting to crop tightly on a great subject, but a looser crop allows better composition and room to breathe, especially in the direction the subject is heading.

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You seem to live in a raptor friendly area, Dave. Beautiful look at the hawk. Agree it could use more breathing space.

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This time of year is good for raptor spotting not too far from here. This FH was pretty close, hence the tight cropping but I could’ve created more “content aware” filling around it…

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Dave, IMO, this type of increasing the size by using Gen Fill is totally acceptable. The sky was already there, wasn’t it? and the stump? It’s not like you were using Gen Fill to change the BG or create a different stump.
Just MY opinion of course.