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Comment by dushampt:
Great photo, good DOF, but the background doesn't have that motion blur that i think it really needed for this particular challenge.

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Comment by view360:
centered well and great action shot! Gr8. 8

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Comment by BrianR:
This appears to be more shallow depth of field than pan...

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Comment by mist:
A good clear shot on the bird, though not a whole lot of evidence of panning.

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Comment by stevieian:
Beautiful shot, great Bokeh. But I don't see the motion panning ...

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Comment by Jedusi:
Beautiful capture of a beautiful bird. The question for me is whether it shows motion panning or motion capture.

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Comment by Artifacts:
Incredibly nice stop action image. Colors, lighting and exposure are right on. (Of course that could be accomplished with RAW image processing from the original. lol!) Nice sharpness and excellent perspective on the hawk.

The image looks to be soft focused rather than motion panned. It does not show much background motion. That is probably because you took it at a fast shutter speed even though you obviously were panning the bird. Some voters will probably fault this fine image for that in this particular challenge.

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Comment by Xilebo:
I would consider this more a bokeh than panning...the photo is exceptional and beautiful, it's hard not to score it high...

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Comment by jfwolpert:
looks more like stopped motion shallow dof to me nice moment tho

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Comment by pslyons:
Greate picture. Awesome bird in flight.