Female Pheasant - (head shot)

[Steve Kaluski]

This is the same subject as posted yesterday, very shortly after taking the shot she got up and moved towards me, filling the frame which in turn, meant I had to go for a tighter crop. OOF grass has either blurred or coloured in parts the chest feathers, hence the slight green cast. One grass stem removed, not ideal or great!!!

Thank you to those who viewed or added a comment on the previous image.

Cheers
Steve

Subject: Female pheasant, head shot, early morning (Phasianus colchicus)
Location: UK
Camera: Canon 1DX
Lens: 500f/4 plus 1.4x HH
Exposure: 1/125s (:Whoa!:) at f/5.6 ISO800

Just double checked the Techs, 1.4 was on too DOH.

[keith mitchell]

Steve the quality of your last post was excellent, this surpasses it IMHO.

Cheers Keith.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Steve I missed the former post but this one is quite nice. Good and sharp eye contact. Light is good and the clonig job is clean.

[Karl Egressy]

Excellent sharpness and detail, Steve.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Amazing detailed head shot, Steve. Beautiful subject.




Geoffrey

[Iain Barker]

Amazing sharpness and detail especially for the speed and HH. The water on the beak adds some extra interest.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Excellent portrait with wonderful detail.The composition works very well IMO.

[christopher galeski]

sharp with nice detail,for me, may be a touch more room at the top.?

[Andy Shepherd]

Really liking this one, Steve...and as already mentioned, the sharpness is incredible for a 1/125th HH on that combo; you should have been a surgeon.

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Fantastic IQ and Sharpness Steve. TFS.