Ferug Rough Leg Coming Home

Posted by Nick Dunlop on Tue Jan 11, 2005 3:07 pm

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I discovered a roost site where feruginous (sp) rough legs, common rough legs and redtails hung out. Probably 40 to 50 birds there at one time. I found it on my last day traveling and couldn't spend much time there due to failing light and very cold hands. The image prints nicely but I can't seem to get any punch on it on the web. Western Nevada, very cold winter sky, Canon 20D 100-400 at 400mm, Iso 400, f5.6 1/640 sec., minimal crop...Thanks for looking.

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by Alan Murphy on Tue Jan 11, 2005 3:14 pm

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Nick, the lookback makes the shot. Very nice.

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by Harold Stiver on Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:29 pm

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I can see how the detail in the head would come up great in a print. What if you were to give it a tighter crop to show off the bird more, perhaps even on a more pano crop so that you could post a wider image?

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by Miguel Lasa on Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:29 pm

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beautiful flight shot,love the colours

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by Michael Dossett on Tue Jan 11, 2005 5:25 pm

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I really like the look back on this, Nick. There seems to be pretty good detail. Maybe you could get it to pop a little more by selectively toning down the background? In any event I think its a cool shot.

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by ebkw on Tue Jan 11, 2005 7:08 pm

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Nick, love the colour and wing-spread. It might pop more at this size with some selective sharpening of the head. In fact, try the a touch more USM overall first and go to just the head if the overall is too much. Great find.

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by Chris Kayler on Tue Jan 11, 2005 7:12 pm