None of my field guides (or any online) show much of, or talk about, the yellow eyebrow and front of the wings that these guys show here. Perhaps a regional variance? In any case, I find this species quite striking upon closer inspection...
The perch is a natural one but I knew I would use it for the image. Some physical clean up done pre-capture to the fg and bg to rid of potentially distracting elements. Subject encouraged onto the rock with audio.
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/640s., f/6.3, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, small crop for comp. In hindsight I should NOT sharpen the in-focus lichens on the rock...
Fabulous image Dan, very cool bird & BG, amazing colours, nice comp and great techs as usual. Agree with your self critique reg the lichens in the FG. TFS.
Beautiful background and cool bird Daniel. Image quality and techs look awesome. Lichens don't bother me. If anything and I know we tend to disagree on this, I would be tempted to show off more of the BG and give a bit more space around the bird.
Nice pose, and I love the painterly hint of grass habitat in the BG. The yellow over the eye is a field mark I look for, but I had never noticed the extent of yellow that you captured on the front of the wings. Lovely shot. I went out in search of these guys in a local grassland last night, and although I heard and saw a number of them, I couldn't entice them to come in close on a decent perch.
Bird, image design, details, head angle, eye ring, flat head, and all the soft colors are great. Love it.
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Showing Lots of Yellow - Grasshopper Sparrow.
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