Saturday I drive to 4 locations and only end up with an image of... a pigeon. Sunday I wake up to a flock of 100 redpolls right at my backyard feeders (stay tuned)!
The pigeon (Rock Dove) does have remarkable colours and an amazing eye. Quite a handsome fellow despite it's bad reputation within city limits. "High" ISO used to freeze the non-stop head bobbing motion...man, despite being so tame they just do not stop for a second!
Canon 7D + 100-400L @360mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/1600s., f/7.1, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, bottom left of the frame evened out using 40% clone stamp.
Excellent portrait, Daniel.
These great birds saved many people from starvation when cities were besieged during medieval time. For years as a small child, it was the only meat I have ever had on holidays only because it was all we had.
That's why, other than its beauty, this bird it is one of my all-time favorites.
It is also the symbol of Peace, Love, and Faithfullness.
I'm glad to see an image of them posted.
Last edited by Karl Egressy; 12-17-2012 at 09:34 AM.
Daniel, great capture. I love the detail and colors that you were able to obtain in this image. Very clean image. Looking forward to your redpoll images as well!
Lovely portrait, Daniel, with a killer pose and BG. I think it could use a little burning around the face area which would in turn bring out more feather details in that area. I just tried it and really liked it.
As mentioned before a nice portrait with beautiful color, excellent details and complement background. A common bird that get over look many times.
Maybe a slight crop off the top.
Hi Dan, comp works well, and you have brought out the colours on this fellow perfectly. Nothing wrong with pigeon portraits - the challenge is to get them in flight.
Pigeon (Rock Dove)
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