# Inflight Ferruginous

**URL:** <https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/inflight-ferruginous/45674>\
**Category:** Image Critiques\
**Tags:** birds\
**Created:** [March 1, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/inflight-ferruginous/45674 "2025-03-01T20:41:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Dave\_Douglass](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/dave_douglass/32/5332_2.png) [@Dave\_Douglass](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Dave_Douglass)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/inflight-ferruginous/45674/1 "2025-03-01T20:41:08Z")

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![FERRUGINOUS.jpg](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/3X/5/b/5bb17209dc9735f8908528374b1d4ce3fe68215d.jpeg)

> **Critique Style Requested:** _Standard_
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> The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.

### Description

There’s an area not far from here that I have luck finding ferruginous hawks early in the year and here’s a shot I got recently one morning.

### Specific Feedback

Cropping? Anything?

### Technical Details

Z9, 180-600 lens, Nikon 1.4 TC, hand held, 1/2500th, f 11, 645mm, ISO 1250, cropped to 3323 x 2259

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**Author:** ![Dennis\_Plank](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/dennis_plank/32/27033_2.png) [@Dennis\_Plank](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Dennis_Plank)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/inflight-ferruginous/45674/2 "2025-03-01T21:28:25Z")

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Nice job on this one, Dave. It would have been nice if it had come by on the other side so the eye was lit, but in this kind of shot, you take what they give you. I like the wing position. I get the feeling it’s coming in for a landing.

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**Author:** ![Allen\_Sparks](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/allen_sparks/32/63507_2.png) [@Allen\_Sparks](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Allen_Sparks)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/inflight-ferruginous/45674/4 "2025-03-03T20:26:07Z")

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Nice in flight pose Dave with fine wing position. Lighting direction is tough - miss seeing the eye catchlight, etc. Still a fine catch.