Backyard Chipping Sparrow.

[Daniel Cadieux]

With a few minutes at hand, and a few Chipping Sparrows singing in the area I knew I could do a quick ground set-up and lure these guys for a pose or two. Grabbed a rock from the garden, put the speaker just in front of it Time taken from setting up to wrapping up the session...about 10 minutes. Not bad for a bit of free time at home! I do wish it would have perched on the nearer part of the rock, but they seem to be quite willing tp participate...another session is likely in store

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, natural light, handheld, 1/800s., f/5.6, ISO 800, FF, darkened pupil and lightened iris. Darkened some areas of the rock. NR to the background. Audio used.

[dankearl]

The sparrow looks great, I am sure you will try again and get the bird to the near part of the perch.

[Karl Egressy]

Love the pose and the background on this one, Daniel.

[Don Lacy]

Wonderful detail and pose Daniel you might want to try cropping from the bottom getting rid of some of the OOF rock

[Allen Sparks]

Hi Daniel,
Wonderful details with a nice pose. Agree with cropping from bottom as an alternative.

Allen

[Daniel Cadieux]

Thanks guys. I kinda like the grass in botn lower corners...but in hindsight a bit of a crop below would not hurt.

[mohammad reza shahab]

Wonderful detail and pose.very nice BG.

[Girish Prahalad]

lovely image. nice pose, IQ & colors

[Robert Holguin]

Wonderful shot.
Excellent pose, very nice low angle, wonderful background, and excellent details.
I really like the perch and comp too.
Very well done.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Love everything about this one Daniel! cool bird and pose.