Female Cooper's Hawk

Good detail and headturn. Perhaps a little bright overall, but a nice view of this Cooper's. Sharon

Hi Roger,
Without knowing the details of what you are doing to get from your camera to a jpeg it's hard to say. This looks to me like you had some pretty bright light to deal with, but there is a lot of jpeg artifact showing around the bird. Drop me an email if you like and I'll help you out.

I'm having trouble posting a high quality image at only 200kb. Suggestions?

As Charlie mentions it would help to know more about your work flow. Do you shoot raw or jpeg? Do you use Photoshop or something else? How much of a crop is this? Did you use any noise reduction on it?

Unless the image is crammed with fine texture/detail (like trees with lots of leaves) then 200Kb is quite adequate for a 720px image. This image has been compressed to only 128Kb.

Thanks, everyone. I shoot RAW, download and preliminary adjust in Lightroom, export to Elements 6 in TIFF where I do final editing. I think that the problem is in the resizing for posting here. I'm trying to follow the guidelines by 1)Setting at 72 pixels/inch, 2)width at 720. What I then find is that file size is way over 200kb. I try to overcome this by reducing JPEG quality, sometimes as far as 9. I think that this is the source of the problem. Thanks for any help.
P.S. About 50% crop, Noise Ninja used.