Peregrine Falcon & Autumnal Colours

[jimsphotography]

Hi,
Spent a day with a falconer recently. His Peregrine flew into a tree & was playing difficult about coming back - managed to get some shots of him amongst the autumn leaves & thought it was a bit different from the usual shots of a captive bird of prey.
Thanks for looking
James

Peregrine Falcon by james boardman-woodend, on Flickr

[tigerburnie]

Re: Peregrine Falcon & Autumnal Colours

Perfect for my eyes.

[Stan]

Re: Peregrine Falcon & Autumnal Colours

A good idea and something a bit different James but for me there is a bit too much of the yellow leaves especially along the top.

I would go for more of a landscape format, losing most of the yello along the top and cloning out what is left above his head

Stan

[DaveG001]

Re: Peregrine Falcon & Autumnal Colours

I like it James
The framing effect looks good but I wonder if the break on the right hand side (midway) draws the eye too much and maybe cropping in from the right to remove it might be a good idea
The Falcon of course is the Main focal point and has been captured very well from me :-)
Cheers
Dave

[anderson.council]

Re: Peregrine Falcon & Autumnal Colours

Nice one James.

[Dawesy]

Re: Peregrine Falcon & Autumnal Colours

Nice shot

[jimsphotography]

Re: Peregrine Falcon & Autumnal Colours

Thanks guys for looking and commenting - a particular thank you to Dave & Stan for making suggestions as well
James

[ST-EOS]

Re: Peregrine Falcon & Autumnal Colours

Well done James you've managed to capture something out of the ordinary for a bird photograph. Some good suggestions to tweak it too.

[tesarver]

Re: Peregrine Falcon & Autumnal Colours

It's a very nice image James, however I think that a tighter crop, cutting out the yellow all around tends to help focus the eye on the eyes of the falcon.

Tom

[Parsen66]

Re: Peregrine Falcon & Autumnal Colours

I agree with Daves crop suggestion, a bit off the right making the falcon more off centre.

It's a fantastic shot James all the same

[Tigger]

Re: Peregrine Falcon & Autumnal Colours

I agree with Daves crop suggestion, a bit off the right making the falcon more off centre.

It's a fantastic shot James all the same

I do agree with the crop suggestion, but stunning work James

but on a sad note really going to miss your landscape work that for me is one of the best ;o(...least I can still see what your up to on flickr :)

[John Liddle]

Re: Peregrine Falcon & Autumnal Colours

Well done James - an excellent image - for me it works fine as it is - I think cropping the RHS would lessen the sense of the bulk of the bird being hidden, so I would happily leave alone.