Crow bathing and trying to look like a Ruff maybe ?
Pity about he reflection
They are such wary birds but like many others can be really confiding at water, once they accept the hide.
D200.
Sigma 100-300mm 250th @f9
640 ISO
Contrast down in camera. 80% 0f frame.
A dose of Fill flash in Paint Shop Pro.9
JohnR
Last edited by Daniel Cadieux; 01-19-2015 at 03:49 PM.
Nice details in the blacks and lovely puffed up chest.
You could avoid your "hated " reflections by going lower! Put a mattress in your blind and put a new hole in at the bottom of the blind!
Gail
Thanks all. Gail- hide wouldn't take a cushion never mind a mattresse !! Go lower and I loose all my lovely DOF- especially the over the shoulder shots
JohnR
Nice puffed up look to this guy as he is about to get in. The techs and the detail in the blacks looks great and I like the sharp eye. Well done
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Thanks Mike/David Just finished reading the book by Captain Knight about filming Golden eagles in 1926 and they did use a mattresse in the hide ! I wonder how you set a tripod up n a mattresse ???
Thanks again.
John