One of the most beautiful songs of the North American forests. The background here is a vernal pool, created by melted snow, and I was pointing down towards it. The wind hitting the surface created these subtle variations and striations, which I thought looked pretty neat. Subject attracted to natural perch via audio.
Canon R6 + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/200s., f/5.6, ISO 3200, natural light, handheld, FF, removed bluish cast to the white feathers via hue/saturation, cleaned up the eye reflection.
04-26-2023, 02:52 AM
Jonathan Ashton
Love the setting and the pose. Colours entirely complimentary, I have not seen one of these before and I agree a beautiful bird. Super details.
04-26-2023, 08:28 AM
Joseph Przybyla
Hi Dan, I agree with your write up, the background does look pretty neat. About as parallel to the bird as it gets, nice colors and feather detail. I like the image, thank you for sharing.
04-26-2023, 09:37 PM
Andreas Liedmann
Hi Dan .. the image does look almost like a painting with all those pastel colors , but I do like it as photograph as well .
Just a pleasure to look at ...
TFS Andreas
04-27-2023, 03:10 PM
Arthur Morris
Wow. Wow. Wow! You were really pushing it HH-ing at 700 mm at 1/200 second. This image is far beyond amazingly beautiful, stunning. Was audio used?
much love, a
04-28-2023, 05:31 AM
Daniel Cadieux
Thanks a stack guys! Yes artie, audio used (written in the caption) - glad you like it!
04-28-2023, 07:39 AM
Kurt Bowman
Very nicely done Daniel! I absolutely love that BG and great looking subject as well! Congrats on a fine image