Red-winged Blackbird.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Another of the earlier spring arrivals, and another song that soothes the ear beginning in March...signalling the near end to winter.This was a good handholding test for the new gear and it passed with flying colours!

Canon 7D + 500mm + 1.4X TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/250s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, FF, darkened pupil (burn tool), lightened the darkest stalk via dodge tool.

[jack williamson]

What a beautiful image! The blacks, yellows and reds are perfect. The pose and the BG are awesome. Impressive with that much magnification at 1/250.

[yogesh_puranik]

awesome image nice clarity, exposure and pose. Congrats for new gear

[Satish Ranadive]

Daniel Sir:
Magnificent image. Very nice composition and environment. Beautiful colors and nice HA.

Regards,
Satish.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Great IQ, pose & BG. Very well exposed. TFS

[vishaljadhav]

The striking thing about this image to me is the perfect composition , my eye did not look for details or any thing first I just loved the perfect placement of the components here. Super handholding image

[mohammad reza shahab]

Great pose,perch and Beautiful colors.

[Loi Nguyen]

Daniel, congrats on the new gear! Excellent details, perfect exposure, love the composition, the habitat, and the creamy BG.

[PhilCook]

Unusual but very likeable pose, nicely exposed blacks and all stands out nicely against the lighter backdrop

[Arno Ellmer]

Great capture ,Daniel. I love the pose with the prominent red shoulder patches , the HA and the detail in the crossed over primaries.
Congrats on the new gear. Now for some gym work for hand holding !! :S3:

[Norm Dulak]

Excellent in every way.

[Marina Scarr]

Well done on exposing for the blacks, Daniel, and I especially like the pose and environment.

Any plans on ever using a tripod or on selling the 100-400? :)