Coopers Hawk I

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One of a series of this bird- I shot this with a 400 lens on a very overcast day. I did clone some branches out and softened the edges a bit in post processing.

Hi great find... the image looks over exposed was that due to shooting into direct light or post processing?

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This bird perches way up in the top of a tall tree and I was also shooting into a very bright overcast sky and also did blur the edges on this- in retrospect not such a good idea. I took another image very similar to this one and dropped a background into it and it works a lot better. Also took out a few more of the branches on the right. Thge bird is a frequent visitor here and I am just waiting for him to land a bit lower on the tree- so far no luck but I will get it one of these days. Thank you for your comments.

hmm maybe a little too much of a light vignette ( if thats what it is) but i like the shot. Its one of those cases i think of 'why edit a shot too much, if you have a nice one to start with ?'.

You're righ Ric. The original needed a little help but I definately did too much- kind of fell into the trap of "if a little bit is good more must be better". Not so true. The subsequent one is a much better effort.