Rufous-naped Lark - displaying and singing his heart out

[Richard Flack]

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Photo details:
Canon EOS 7D
400mm f2.8
ISO 400
Shutter speed 1/4000
F stop 4
Exposure bias 0

Removed branches to the left
> 50% crop

I was in two minds about sharing this photograph as the IQ is not what I wanted to to be and it is a fairly large crop. That said, I liked the perch and the display pose.
I look forward to your comments and thoughts. Thanks for looking!

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Richard,

While not the best IQ, the perch and unbalance pose is very nice. Maybe a tad too much sharpening?

Miguel

[Randy Stout]

Richard:

Interesting perch, with complimentary color palette. Strong sense of motion despite the high shutter speed (which is good)

On my monitor the background is rather blotchy, uneven colors. Perhaps a bit of noise reduction there to smooth it out.

Cheers

Randy

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Richard, you timed the display nicely, just didnt get the raised foot that goes with it.:w3 There are lot of these guys at Rietvlei, but the perch tells me this was captured elsewhere. I also the 'botchy' BG, so as Randy suggests, smoothening it out should work.

[Richard Flack]

Thanks everyone, not my best but thanks for the comments and suggestions.

Stuart, out of interest how do you smooth out the BG as I am using the brush tool but obviously not getting the smooth effect you are talking about? Any help would be awesome.
I took this in Welgevonden Private Game Reserve, Vaalwater.