Juvenile Postal Worker

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Description

I came upon this handsome red-tail on the roadside recently. It was busy looking for lunch and it ignored me (not usually the case)

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Cropping? I was a little torn oh how to crop this. Body angling one way, head turned the other so I split the differenced and pretty much centered it. What say you?

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Z9, 180-600 lens, Nikon 1.4 TC, 1/3200th, f 8.5, 870mm, ISO 1400, hand held.

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The crop works for me, Dave. Was this a very large crop? There seems to be a bit of loss of fine feather detail either due to something like that or perhaps your jpeg conversion quality setting. It’s still a very nice image of this hawk and when they’re perched up high like that, it’s always nice to get them looking down like this.

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Nice look at the hawk, Dave and I like the pose with the downward gaze.

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Hi Dave
I love the head turn and eye contact. The center framing works, but I would like to see it pushed over to the left a bit.
Peter