This Peregrine Falcon <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Falco_peregrinus" title="Falco peregrinus">Falco peregrinus</a></i>, was perched in the shadows on the tree branch at Bolsa Chica, California. To properly expose the bird, I used +2/3 exposure compensation and darkened the sky back to its original color in Photoshop. To give me greater depth field I used a high ISO (800) with my camera's high ISO speed noise reduction setting on.
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