I was walking the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Naples Florida when this male cardinal showed up just a few yards away, I wasn't ready to shoot that close, I was using the Canon 400mm 2.8 + 2x Extender impossible to focus at such distance. I stood still right in front of him, and tried to remove the extender from my setup, the cardinal stayed in the branch for almost five minutes, enough to catch a lot of photos.
Last edited by Daniel Cadieux; 06-25-2012 at 06:18 AM.
These guys are quite beautiful, and got this one with a deep rich red (but perhaps a bit on the cool side). Comp-wise the subject is rather tight in the frame, especially at righ. Best to have more breathing room all around, and even more towards the direction the subject is "looking" into. I do realize you had a cluttered setting and perhaps trying to minimize that. Trying a feeder setup with this species is usually rewarding (with a blind as these guys can be skittish).
P.S. To help in our critiques it is best to include exif data (camera, lens, settings such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO, flash, etc...)
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