Thru the Greens

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

This is another shot of the local Sand hill Crane chick. I wanted to capture an image thru the grasses and hopeful get lucky with the wildflowers to show the size of the chicks and portray them in natural habitat. The challenge was to show a clear face thru all the greens.
Canon 1DMIV
500mm f4
ISO 400 f4.5@1/500

[Randy Stout]

Cheryl:

A beautifully crafted image, very soft, impressionistic, while maintaining good sharpness on the face. The flowers on the right work very well, might prefer the OOF ones not be there at the rump, but minor point.

Well envisioned and executed, congrats.

Cheers

Randy

[stuart wanuck]

very nice pastoral appearance nice!

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Very lovely littler bird, light and the OOF grass makes the image even better!

[Alan Murphy]

Like a painting. A beautiful setting for this little cutie.

[Marina Scarr]

Very painterly image, Cheryl. Full of details where it needs to be and love the effect of the flowers and soft BG.

[John Ippolito]

Lovely, soft, impressionistic feel to this, Cheryl. Very nice.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Cheryl,

Isn't it nice when we have a shot in mind and are able to execute it. Great positioning, and it looks like you were at just the right height to get a clear shot. Love the soft look of it, yet still see that focus was spot on. Not sure I'd change a thing.

Is this a portrait crop from landscape orientation or did you have the foresight to take it in portrait mode? I never do!

Miguel

[Diane Miller]

Gorgeous!! What would you think about cropping a little off the top? The brighter greens there pull my eye away from the lovely subject and the rest of its beautiful setting.

[arash_hazeghi]

such a delicate chick captured well in a dreamy habitat
well done

[vishaljadhav]

Wonderful image

[Robert Holguin]

Beautiful shot.
Very artistic.
Wonderful background, great pose, and terrific comp.
Very well done.

[PhilCook]

Like your use of blur in this Cheryl....a veritable painting { that's a good thing }....must add, gotta love this chicks tiny little wing stumps LOL

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Cheryl,

Isn't it nice when we have a shot in mind and are able to execute it. Great positioning, and it looks like you were at just the right height to get a clear shot. Love the soft look of it, yet still see that focus was spot on. Not sure I'd change a thing.

Is this a portrait crop from landscape orientation or did you have the foresight to take it in portrait mode? I never do!


Miguel

Hi Miguel, No I'm not always totally on my game either. This was cropped to vertical

[Grace Scalzo]

Image has a child-like sweetness and simplicity about it. Love it, Cheryl.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Cheryl, love the setting, and how you have captured the chick seemingly peering over the grasses. Great detail and sharpness on the head. Well thought out.

[Faraaz Abdool]

Whoa, Cheryl - this is a definite wall-hanger!

[Melissa Groo]

Cheryl, this is truly special. The dreamlike, painterly quality is just gorgeous. So glad your wish to get some great sandhill colt shots this spring have come true!

[David Salem]

Painterly is right. Very soft and subtle look to this one. Nice vision Cheryl.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Thanks:)

[nick clayton]

I love the gentle light which is suited to this baby bird. The background is nicely OOF and has an interesting pattern to it. This is a work of art Cheryl.

[Satish Ranadive]

Beautiful image of sweet little one.Very nice BG,colors and composition.

Regards,
Satish.