Western Bluebird landing

[Binu John]

Setup perch
Canon 1D Mark III + Canon 400mm f/5.6
f/8, 1/2000, ISO 800

[Rich Reich]

Beautiful capture!

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Awesome image! Fantastic colors and nice landing pose.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Beautifully done, Binu. Not an easy shot. Excellent pose, colors and sharpness. Tad more at the bottom and right, if available would work, but excellent as is too. TFS.

[stuart wanuck]

very well done i liek more saturation but that is me

[Daniel Cadieux]

Beautiful image, love the outstretched wings and feet. Techs and processing very good too.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Love the image Binu. Thanks for sharing.

[MiroslavMaric]

Great moment, sharp and nice background. Congratulations!

[Arthur Morris]

Quite stunning. Love the outstretched feet and the wings-up landing pose. Tell us lots more about the capture. Active AF or preset focus? How was the bird attracted to the perch?

[Binu John]

Thanks everyone for the comments!

Thanks Sidharth! I agree... but there was one more teasel just below those two in the frame and I didn't want to partially include it in the frame.

Beautifully done, Binu. Not an easy shot. Excellent pose, colors and sharpness. Tad more at the bottom and right, if available would work, but excellent as is too. TFS.

[Binu John]

Thank you for your kind words, Artie!

I used mealworms as described in Alan Murphy's "The Guide to Songbird set-up Photography" (I think I bought it from the Birds As Art online store) After getting a few perching shots, we threw a few mealworms to the ground for the birds. I got this shot while this Bluebird returned to the perch after finishing the worms we offered. I used Active AF and pre-focused on the perch anticipating the action and focused on the bird when it entered the frame.

PS: I got permission from Alan for posting the above details.

Quite stunning. Love the outstretched feet and the wings-up landing pose. Tell us lots more about the capture. Active AF or preset focus? How was the bird attracted to the perch?

[MohsenVahedipour]

Terrific landing pose. Excellent IQ, perch wing position & BG. TFS

[David Salem]

That's a killer frame Binu. The pose, the color, the detail and the BG all look awesome. Well done on this setup.

[Diane Miller]

Just outstanding! I took this for an Alan Murphy!

[Binu John]

Thanks everyone for the comments!

[Andrew Robinson]

Stunning image of a stunning bird.

Andrew

[Arthur Morris]

Thank you for your kind words, Artie!

I used mealworms as described in Alan Murphy's "The Guide to Songbird set-up Photography" (I think I bought it from the Birds As Art online store) After getting a few perching shots, we threw a few mealworms to the ground for the birds. I got this shot while this Bluebird returned to the perch after finishing the worms we offered. I used Active AF and pre-focused on the perch anticipating the action and focused on the bird when it entered the frame.

PS: I got permission from Alan for posting the above details.

YAW and thanks for the info. We do ask that when birds are baited that it be noted with the original post. Still a quite stunning image! Folks can purchase that CD here.

[Binu John]

Sure, I'll do that next time. Though I didn't use the word "baited" in the OP, my intention was to mention that fact as I've noted that it's a "setup".

YAW and thanks for the info. We do ask that when birds are baited that it be noted with the original post. Still a quite stunning image! Folks can purchase that CD here.

Thanks Andrew

Stunning image of a stunning bird.
Andrew

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks Binu. Set-up is a bit vague. Our goal is for folks to fully understand the situation. Some might think that you set up the perch and waited patiently for a bluebird to land on it :).