Red Kite shot

snowpaul
Posted 14/05/2010 - 19:53 Link
What does the this image look like to everyone else ? C+C welcome - I have not done anything to this Jpeg image apart from a crop and a blemish removal in the background done on an ancient copy of PS elements... Taken hand held on a K200 with a retro manual 70/210mm pentax A lens @ ISO 400 - f 5.6 - 1/1000sec at max length....

awesome birds - taken at gigrin farm outside rhayader in mid wales... It was a struggle getting decent shots...

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Technoblurb
Posted 14/05/2010 - 20:10 Link
for starters a great shot especially considering it was hand held. I presume this was feeding time at the farm. For me I would loose about an eighth of the right hand side, the bush is far too indistinct to frame the image.
Graham
bwlchmawr
Posted 14/05/2010 - 20:19 Link
Needs a crop but other than that, a super shot. A favourite bird of mine and a good reason to visit mid-Wales (if one needed one!)

Regards,

Andrew
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Andrew

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Technoblurb
Posted 14/05/2010 - 20:28 Link
bwichmawr wrote:
A favourite bird of mine and a good reason to visit mid-Wales (if one needed one!)

Regards,

Andrew
We also have them in Gateshead on the Derwent Valley, but not in the the same quantity.

Graham
bwlchmawr
Posted 14/05/2010 - 21:30 Link
I didn't know that!

A.
Best wishes,

Andrew

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womble
Posted 14/05/2010 - 21:35 Link
Some up near Great Missenden in the Chilterns too. Not that I have ever seen them but a twitcher friend has seen them. K.
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bwlchmawr
Posted 14/05/2010 - 21:46 Link
My dream this year would be to see the ospreys in North Wales. You never know...

A.
Best wishes,

Andrew

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Technoblurb
Posted 14/05/2010 - 22:14 Link
I'm off to Skye this year, hoping for Golden Eagles
fatspider
Posted 14/05/2010 - 22:17 Link
Well its 1000% better than any Red Kite image I have, but I would clone out the second bird if it were mine.
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thoughton
Posted 14/05/2010 - 23:23 Link
It's a great shot of the main bird, but agree with the suggestions to crop it a fair bit, and clone out the other bird. Perhaps something like this?

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techno-terminator
Posted 14/05/2010 - 23:45 Link
Now that's more like it
let the education continue

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Hardgravity
Posted 15/05/2010 - 05:39 Link
Tim's crop shows the bird off well, much better.

We also have Red Kites around the Harwood estate in Yorkshire.

It's a growing population spreading well out towards Harrogate now.
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