Female Red-winged Blackbird

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Photographed at Bosque during Thxgiving week at the cornfields. A stem intruding from the left was removed.

Best, JR

Canon 1DMkIV (rented), 500F4IS, 1.4TC, 700 mm, 1/1000s, F7.1, ISO-400, Manual Exposure, Subject Distance 13.5m, Gitzo tripod w/ Mongoose 3.5a

[Aidan Briggs]

Nice pose, exposure, and composition. I like the simple perch and BG. Well done!

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Thanks Aidan. JR

[Stu Bowie]

Joerg, I like the markings and colours, and posed against a complimentary BG. At your distance of 13.5m, I feel you would have to had stopped down even more to cover the full DOF.

[Craig Brelsford]

Good Photoshop work, pretty bird, perfect BG. The bird very much dominates the frame and on my monitor is approaching or perhaps even exceeding larger-than-life size. Don't know how much time you had with the blackbird, but had I the time I'd have had no qualms about upping the ISO, narrowing the aperture, and trying to get the entire bird in sharp focus. Easier said than done, I know.

[Danny J Brown]

Joerg,

Nice image with the hen blackbird in a great look-back pose that shows the wing detail. I'm always sensitive to too much contrast in an image but this one seems to need a bit more. The blacks are a little washed out. Nice, sharp view of the face and a unique perch. Thanks.

DB

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice comp, colours and warm tones, and HA! Blacks look OK from here, and although a bit more DOF wouldn't hurt I'm OK with that too. I wouldn't mind the subject a bit smaller in the frame.

[Bhushan Dalvi]

Joerg, I like the complimentary BG, the simple perch and the DOF looks fine to me. Well done.

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Thank you all for the feedback! JR

[RAM MALLYA]

Lovely details and sharpness on the bird BG is also great .

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Thanks Ram. JR