Mark III and 600 -1/800 @ f4. 5; 20 % or so crop: zero digital alterations other than the basic adjustments of white point, extremely mild curves selectively touched up, 8% sat boost on some of the bird, and very extensive, many layers of finese sharpening. Thats it.
Just like an airplane does when it's at, or closer than a wingspan's distance to the ground, and rides a bubble of air pressure formed that provides extra lift, the redtail can sail across a surface a great distance without any further wing flapping input-- riding the same bubble of air. The Redtail however has been doing this for millennia uncountable. The phenomenon is called ground effect. It almost to me looks like he's using his tail fanned out and cupped to help trap the bubble of air underneath him.
