Northern Cardinal

[Alan Murphy]

Northern Cardinal



Laguna Seca Ranch, S. Texas


D3, 600, ISO 1600, f5.6, 1/4000



Pre-focused on flight path from staging perch to feeder

[Doug Brown]

Excellent flight frame Alan! Even at a setup, you've got to have a quick trigger finger to get a shot like this. How far was your staging perch from your feeder?

[gail bisson]

Just amazing reflexes and technique needed for this one.
Love the head turn towards you and the wings down position.
Great light as well.
A technically superb flight shot,
Gail

[Mike Veltri]

Very nice, thanks for explain your setup.

[Alan Murphy]

Excellent flight frame Alan! Even at a setup, you've got to have a quick trigger finger to get a shot like this. How far was your staging perch from your feeder?

Around 5 feet. Thanks.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Cracking pose, detail and sharpness Alan.

[Gabriela Plesea]

Beautifully exposed and stunning colours, love the detail in the wings, perfect BG, well planned and executed, Allan!

Kind regards,

[Andre Pretorius]

I echo all the above, can just add.. WOW!

[keith mitchell]

Alan think I can't add a lot just to say it all looks great to me.:S3:

[Carl Walker]

Another stunning image Alan. Super BIF shot

[vishaljadhav]

One of my favourite birds , never seen it in real but i just love all the images i see of this bird
i must stay that till date this is the best i have seen of this bird, in air is really special
the IQ is fantastic and the BG compliments it well, very nicely executed.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Wonderful flight shot! Perfect technique. Couldn't be better than this. TFS

[Martin Dunn]

stunning shot all around Alan; in flight pose, sharpness, background and colours all superb. Kudos

[PRABIR BHATTACHARYYA]

Excellent capture....on pre focus.
Liked the framing too.

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent dynamic pose and wing position! well done

[Karl Egressy]

Perfect technics that I actually tried with Gray Jays but will have to work on a little longer (maybe much longer) to come up with this kind of superb image as you did, Alan.

[Arthur Morris]

Perfect technics that I actually tried with Gray Jays but will have to work on a little longer (maybe much longer) to come up with this kind of superb image as you did, Alan.

You are right Karl. Few realize the amount of time, work, and effort that goes into creating an image like this. Alan shares all of his set-up secrets in his two great guides; see both at the link here (http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/2013/11/17/torres-del-paine-tyrants-audio-playback-in-south-america-manual-exposure-tip-and-more-2/).

[Grace Scalzo]

This is beautiful, Alan. Such sharpness and clarity.

[Joe Murphy]

It's all been said above, fantastic shot Alan.

[Girish Prahalad]

superb image! great IQ, pose & BG.

[shane shacaluga]

WOW!! This is level 10 BIF photography!!

Superb and thanks for sharing the image and the setup used ;)