Shot, not in the wild - unfortunately (although they are on the rise here in the UK) - but at the National BOP centre near Gloucester, UK. Was just about to dig into a dead chick :)
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RAW Conversion -> Photoshop
Crop
Shadow/Highlight
Cloned out a hair/feather on the tip of his beak.
Selective de-noising using Imagenomic Noiseware-Pro
Dodge - Burn
Levels
Selective Curves on Eye and eyelid.
Curves
Flatten
Resize
USM x2
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Thanks for the feedback - i had actually made a square crop to give it more impact and take out the neg space to the left (it was originally cropped like that to put the eye on the 3rds) but forgot to upload it for some reason - whether that was good or bad i will never know as it seemed some people like it as is.
And one thing which really put a smile on my face today was that although it is by a hair's breadth, i just beat Larus in a Free Study! :)
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Back to comment. I really enjoy taking photos of birds of prey and know that taking truly succesful ones, even where the birds are captive, is not a given. You have captured the perfect moment here with the bird showing a strong degree of intensity. Focus, composition and depth of field are all good. 10 from me.
On a side note, I was lucky to see a Red Kite in the wild as I was driving a few weeks ago; I pulled over and watched for a while, bit sadly didn't have my long lens with me.
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