Yellow Hammer.

[keith mitchell]

Nikon D4
Nikon 300mm2.8
1/5000@f7.1
iso 100.


Thanks for taking a look.

[adrian dancy]

Excellent work Keith. Good and accurate colours and a bird that featured in my youth so much. Sadly numbers decreased significantly.

[Ihtisham Kabir]

A nice, well-defined and well-executed portrait, the kind that I try to remember to identify the bird. Thanks for sharing.

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Keith, you beat me to it with this subject :bg3:, as I've been watching them with the Hedge sparrows whilst doing some intel on the owls.

Sweet subject and the green backdrop really provides punch to the subject, albeit that I think you could back off on any NR/Blur as the BKG is a wee bit too smooth, but that might be because of the ISO? Nice detail, I think perhaps you could have gone to f/9 with the ISO & SS. I would rotate it so the beam is horizontal, however as posted it's a wee bit tight, not sure if this is FF or not? I might just evict what looks like seed and the odd white spots, looks cleaner.

TFS
Steve

[Jonathan Ashton]

Lovely yellowhammer, we don't have any locally now, last one seen was about 3 years ago. I think Steve is along the right track the background is a bit in your face, I would also consider desaturating it slightly.

[William Dickson]

Well done Keith, Beautiful bird, beautifully presented :S3:

Will

[keith mitchell]

Thanks Adrian sorry yours are going down think that we have a slight increase in these parts,Thanks Itishham for your kind words, thanks Steve agree about the bg may have done a bit of unnecessary nr ,do prefer my sloping perch all a matter of taste,thanks Jon will send you some over:bg3:,Thanks Will appreciated.


Keith

[Karl Egressy]

Striking colors and nice detail, Keith.

[keith mitchell]

Thanks Karl appreciate your comment.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image. Very pleasant colors, great details, beautiful BG and nice composition.
I like the repost by Steve, too.


Regards,
Satish.

[keith mitchell]

Thanks Satish much appreciated.

Keith.