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Description
This handsome kestrel struck a pose for me in the last few minutes of sunset. I got lucky. these guys are pretty shy, and hard for me to capture.
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Cropping?
Technical Details
Z9, 180-600 lens, Nikon 1.4 TC, hand held, 1/1600th, f 9.0, 1260mm, ISO 2800, cropped to 2019 x 2477.
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Very cute! I’ve never seen one of these tiny hunters, so it’s a real treat. Cropping…hm, I’d play with having more room for the bird to look into. Also it looks a tad muddy to me. I know it was sundown, so the light is very warm, but I wonder if lifting the mid tones would improve things. The sky seems especially gray. The softness in the feathers is really nice, very floofy and those little talons!
Excellent image of this Kestrel, Dave. I see a bit of what Kris is talking about. Sometimes really rich sunset light can be hard to make look “realistic”, even though it is, because our eyes tend to adjust to the color of the ambient light pretty rapidly, but not when it’s presented on a photograph. You might just pull the color temp down a bit in your raw processor. Your crop works for me.
