Wedge Tail Eagle, obviously heavily over processed to get the effect. I doubt most people will like it, but it is a shape.
Cropped
levels (very heavy)
noise reduct.
Sharpened
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Given that I have tried to capture a really good shot of a hawk or eagle in flight for the better part of a year I can appreciate the effort of getting a good bead on this bird in flight. It is not an easy capture....Nonetheless there is room for improvement on this picture. Personally a white sky is uninteresting and the white is a glaring background to complement the hawk. Now the white background does serve to function as a minimialistic background such that attention is only focused on the hawk. But the stark white also acts as a sterile background - lacking warmth to really complement the rich browns of the hawk - which a blue sky with a smattering of white clouds can do better to compliment the hues. Now the image as it stands now I think you can very well loose all that white space and go for a closer crop and I'll tell you why. A closer crop where the photo is filled with the soaring hawk would give the viewer a sensation of it looming overhead filling our vision as it comes closer (like we are the prey - especially since it appears like the head is down looking at the ground)
I like the graphic form on this one, but it looks like it crosses the border from photography to digital art. It is a beautiful image, but I wouldn't call it a great photograph.
excellent. I really like this although the white background is quite harsh... maybe a slightly softer colour would be better?
also the detail in the bird is quite poor although that might have been the intention in order to make the shape stand out more. But i do think that because there is nothing else in the frame the shape would stand out even with better detials.
Very nice shot with lgihts from the back of the subject. Does not like the frame though.
UPDATE: I voted this an 8 for the capture (its not easy, I know) and also for the good use of negative space. I still think the border could have been narrow, IMHO. cheers.
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