Southern Grey Shrike

[Richard Unsworth]

:S3:
Hi

Things are pretty quite here in Portugal atm but I captured this shrike earlier today.
Managed to climb up a pile of wood to improve POV
Really just noise red and added sat, light from right and crossed but overcast.
I did however get to see a Little Owl , they will hopefully be showing more as spring advances.
7D 100-400 50 CROP HH 1/400 ISO 400 Ev +2.33 Manual exposure



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[Arthur Morris]

EXP, SH, and head angle spot on. Though I am not a huge fan or near-square crops there is just too much white at the top....

[Karl Egressy]

Nice pose captured Richard, but the shooting angle looks a little steep.

[Sachin Saraf]

Loved the pose, HA, exposure and sharpness..Angle is steep and BG is not something I like but sometimes we take what we get..

[Richard Unsworth]

Thanks

You are totally right Artie
Now using manual exposure from now on :-)

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks

You are totally right Artie
Now using manual exposure from now on :-)

Confused????

[Richard Unsworth]

Art

right about too much white!

was pleased re exposure - - have started to use manual exposure for all shots...sorry my bad

[PhilCook]

Just a little small in the frame I think, but easy to fix of course with a crop, some nice detail coming through and light on the eye. A shame about the overcast conditions, but I wonder if a slight color saturation would lift this image more, however that may make the bird and plant look unnatural, it just lacks a little contrast against the bleached sky as is.

[Richard Unsworth]

Hi Phil

already added as much sat as I think acceptable, these are a little mono in reality
thanks - - weather bad here atm hence lack of posts