Don wrote:
everything old comes back into fashion..
why it was only forty or fifty years or so ago when every photographer out there was draping a black cloth over thier rig..

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iltexano wrote:
nice shot but i have to say that there are too much highlights and the background isn't that beauty!

Where were you? Couldn't you close up on the eyes?

I agree, it was in a fenced off enclosure, so picking the background was not an option, had to blow out the background to get a good exposure.

Here's a square crop of the original.

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Taken at the local Gala's falconry display. Used the Sigma 70-200 F2.8 @F4

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