Raptor in flight

best to seen enlarged so click on bar above photo
Comments welcomed on this test shot

Wonderful photo Barry.

Thank you Moyra. as the heading says it was a test shot using editing for the final result

Excellent!
What camera do you use?

Besoeker
thank you

The above was worked on in Adobe Elements 14 to create the above

camera Nikon D800
Nikon lens 24-70mm f2.8 G @70mm
shutter 1/1600sec
ISO 500
Aperture f10

Now I have the Nikon D810 without the anti alias low pass filter.which an upgraded camera to the D800.

A good used D800 with a low shutter count now is around £650/£700 mark

You really are very good at this.

I take the occasional bird picture but nothing as dramatic as yours:

Besoeker
yes they are but I don't think you are getting the best out of them as shown below. A little post processing will help you a lot.
Ok I might have over done it a bit as a rough example, but you get the idea

I do understand that. I tend not to enhance images beyond cropping just to keep the subject - well the subject without distracting detritus. And now and again I will paint out parts of the image for example television ariels.

This is all natural colours:



I could "enhance" it but I don't think it would help.