Excellent - sharp and great color - though there seems to be a slight magenta cast to me.
-- Bruce Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 10:52:18 AM, you wrote: C> http://tinyurl.com/396c5v C> This is a crested caracara (Caracara cheriway). Kinda like an eagle C> crossed with a vulture. C> The ranch owner had a 3-person blind set up at the top of a slope with C> some nice perches (logs, dead trees) and a pond downslope. It was C> angled perfectly to catch the afternoon sunlight. Unfortunately for 2 C> of the three days it was totally overcast. I got lucky on the only day C> we saw a sunset when it was my turn in the "hawk blind." The caracaras C> where baited in with dead cow parts (heart, kidneys, liver, etc.) and C> got pretty close. C> I kinda like this shot because it is a little different view of a raptor. C> For pixel-peepers: 20D 500mm F4L IS with 1.4x TC mounted on a Manfrotto C> 055Pro with Studioball and Wimberley sidekick. F8 1/200 ISO 100. A C> little fill flash. Converted in ACR and edited in PSCS2 with minimal C> sharpening and corrections for web display. Cropped slightly to a 4x5 C> format for future printing but pretty much full frame (I'm thinking C> it'll look nice 16x20). C> -- C> Christian C> http://photography.skofteland.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
