Red-tail Turnaround

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Description

I caught this guy turning around preparing to fly this morning. He spun around facing away from me and eventually took off. I like the moment.

Specific Feedback

Is that mostly square crop okay?

Technical Details

Z9, 180-600 lens, Nikon 14 TC, hand held, 1/3200th, f 9.0, 525mm, ISO 1400, cropped to 2544 x 1928.

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The crop/composition looks good. A good perch whose colors go well with the hawk.

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I really like the “pose” in this one , Dave. The crop is fine with me. A very fine image.

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Hi Dave, I like the pose of the bird and the crop looks fine to me. Good sharpness on the bird. Well composed with the full branch on the left.

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Quite the dynamic and energetic catch. I think the crop looks good although I’d probably make some of the little bits of branch on the very right edge go away. I’m weird like that. It looks a trifle cyan, but that could just me me being weird again. What a cool scene.

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Excellent! Congrats on the EP…Jim

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Excellent!
Perhaps a little more “red” ?

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Hi Dave
The framing an reaction of the Red-tail are very good. I played with the photograph, trying to bring out more red in the Red-tail and gave up. So I converted into a B&W using the Nik collection. Hope you like it.
Peter

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Looks good! An improvement, I’d say.

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Hi Dave
All repost, are made in the hope, that they meet with the approval of photographer.
Peter

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