Black-throated Sparrow

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Another photo of a black-throated sparrow taken a month back. Finally got a chance to go through them again and I found this one that I liked. It was taken in the evening light. I particularly like the "rim light" around the sparrow.

I had to selectively darken the background to bring back some of the richness and not have it look so washed out.

Shooting Info:
Nikon D800 | 500 f/4 VR + 1.4x
1/400" | f/5.6 | ISO 1600

[Greg Oakley]

Lovely image Miguel - I really like the back-lighting in this and the perch is very cool!

[MohsenVahedipour]

Lovely species with excellent singing pose, perch & BG. TFS

[Jonathan Ashton]

Oh Miguel what a gem love the light the pose the perch the background - absolutely superb well done!

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Very lovely sparrow, and you got it singing! great job getting the BG dark a bit since it really makes the bird to stand out! nice plant where the bird is perched. Is this a set up or you just were lucky to find it there?

[gail bisson]

This is excellent Miguel.
Like the BG color and the singing pose. The perch is really nice and different.
Thsi would look nice as a vertical as well,
Gail

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Like the pose ,perch and nice bg. I think an adjustment to deepen midtones would help and more contrast depth and pop.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Miguel, well placed in the frame, and well timed to capture the singing moment with the open beak. I like the roundness of the body, various colours around the head, and what a sweet BG.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Very lovely sparrow, and you got it singing! great job getting the BG dark a bit since it really makes the bird to stand out! nice plant where the bird is perched. Is this a set up or you just were lucky to find it there?

Thanks Juan. I didn't set up a perch, but they usually go to the top of the cacti when they call out, so it wasn't too much waiting before one was close enough to photograph.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Like the pose ,perch and nice bg. I think an adjustment to deepen midtones would help and more contrast depth and pop.

Cheryl, I'll definitely give that a shot!

[jack williamson]

Superb image! I love the pose and the backlight, well done exposing for the bird, great detail and BG.

Jack

[Daniel Cadieux]

I was going to mention how I like the "rim lighting" around the subject and saw you liked it yourself :-) Nice singing pose, great perch (which I'd try to tone down) and BG.

[Frank Schauf]

Great pose and setting you have here.

[vishaljadhav]

Lovely light , great IQ and the open singing pose makes it special

[Roman Kurywczak]

Very nicely done! Some possible suggestions above for you to explore but all in all a very nice image!