Stonechat - female

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Stonechat - female

One of the very few times that I visited the nature reserve close to my house in the late afternoon - dont ask me why, but I always manage a few decent images in the late light. Most of the birds are pretty close to the side of the road, and driving up slowly and using the car as a hide works well. I decided to leave the OOF pieces of grasses as is.

Canon 1D Mark IV
100-400 @ 400mm
1/2500
F/7.1
ISO 800

Manual exposure
Hand held from the car

Stuart, Nice pose, HA and BG. Exposure and details look great. I like the strong catch light. Well done

The light and HA are perfect.Love the leg position.
Great colors in the BG.
I would remove the OOF grass that intersects with the tail. I also find the tail a bit grainy ? due to sharpening?
Gail

Nice image, the OOF grass in the BG works for me
Lovely details on the bird and a good catchlight, the position of the catchlight suggests you being in front of the bird which makes the tail the most away point in the image and hence may look a bit out of focus
this is more of a guess looking at the light
i like the way its presented

I would see this bird species posted by people from GB. I guess they hang out in your area this time of the year, Stuart.
Nice pose, background and coposition.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Karl Egressy

I guess they hang out in your area this time of the year

Thanks Karl. These guys actually hang around all year, as they are a common resident.

Thank you everyone else for your feedback.

Simple beautiful image. well done all around!

nice one Stuart,nice light,good pose and BG,she looks a bit ruffled.well done.

Stu, nice to see one of our birds on your patch! Lovely exposure and detail, I like the composition but i would also perhaps consider 3:4 vertical crop. The OOF grasses look fine to me, to my mind it helps retain credulity.

Very sharp details on this guy.
You always have such nice backgrounds to go with your subjects.
Beautiful country you live in!

Stuart Sir:
Excellent image.Great exposure,beautiful colors,lovely details,perch to the scale,smooth BG and great composition.
Love it.

Regards,
Satish.

Excellent shot Stuart.
Amazing warm light, wonderful background, really like the perch, and excellent details.
Very well done.

Beautiful perch and nice composition.