Red Tailed Hawk

Does this pic look flat? Something looks off and I can't put my finger on it.

Maybe just a little flat, but it is otherwise and excellent capture...look at that symmetry!

I love birds. I love this picture.

Now just photoshop in the top hat and monocle

Nice I agree little flat colors blend together hard to look at. Maybe to much sharpening. It's still s great shot and I'd be happy to get it.

GrizzlyMan wrote in post #10695726
Maybe to much sharpening.

Complete newb here and I'm wondering about that last quote? What's wrong exactly with sharpening too much? In this picture, the details pop out pretty well, how is it a problem?

Just wondering...

In bird shots when you over sharpen the contrast starts to blend together and details look unreal and go flat. If you shoot in raw and sharpen heavily then save as a jpeg you can really notice oversharpening. This really happens when you crop your image alot to get closer. I'd like to see the raw image if there is one to compare. Dont get me wrong the hawk is a nice capture. I've been photographing RT's for some time and when you get a dead on look it's rare.

Thanks All, The raw file is at home . I will post it up this evening.

Fabulous bif shot.

Since you told me something looks wrong... the feathers look a bit blurred at the ends. I wouldn't have noticed if you didn't say something though.

I looked at the raw file. Well I make some big rookie mistakes. Well the major problem with the shot is that I way under exposed it. Funny I did not remember changing the exposure in post. Second mistake I made is that I did not change my setting back from earlyer that day when I was doing some land scapes. This shot was taken at f14 in stead of my usual 7.1 shutter speed 800 which is slow compared the what I like, and iso 100 instead 800-640 and to top it off I had EC set to -2/3. I guess I am luck that it came out at all. Side note crop was about 50%

Randall n LV wrote in post #10698051
I looked at the raw file. Well I make some big rookie mistakes. Well the major problem with the shot is that I way under exposed it. Funny I did not remember changing the exposure in post. Second mistake I made is that I did not change my setting back from earlyer that day when I was doing some land scapes. This shot was taken at f14 in stead of my usual 7.1 shutter speed 800 which is slow compared the what I like, and iso 100 instead 800-640 and to top it off I had EC set to -2/3. I guess I am luck that it came out at all. Side note crop was about 50%

Glad to hear that you did not forget the lens cap on...

LOL been there done that !!!:o