Cedar Waxwing Potrait

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

This picture was taken in Grand Teton National Park. I saw mulberry trees and couple of Cedar waxwings flying and eating them.

I knew that they could not resist being aways from the mulberries so I says there motionless for sometime to get this shot.

Its was king of mid day and sun angle was also not great, but I liked this shot because I was really close to Cedar Waxing first time and was able to get close up shot.

Gear:-
Nikon D500, Sigma 150-600mm Sports lens
ISO 500, f/6.3, 1/2500 sec

Post processing using Lightroom, Photoshop and neat Image.

Please let me know your comments on the same.

[Tim Foltz]

Krishna, It was nice for you to get close but the harsh light that you mentioned really limits what can be done to this shot.


-Tim

[John Hackney]

The tail is out of focus, but it is not a critical issue. I would have gone for f/8 or maybe better yet f/11. I think you have done as much as you can do to the shot otherwise.

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Hi John,

Thank you for the feedback/comment.

I wish I had gone to f/8 but here is the situation what let to my decision of shooting wide open.

Initial as I saw harsh light so I started with ISO 500 ( Lower the better is what I thought ). I wanted to keep my shutter speed high so that incase the he decides to take off, I could get a flight shot with high shutter speed. With these two I shot wide open to have the histogram as right as possible.

Let me know your thoughts on the above.

Thanks
Krishna

[Doug West]

Shooting at F8 wouldn't have made any difference. With him almost parallel to
the plane, the results would be negligible at best.

Sure, the light is harsh, but the main thing is you got the head sharp.

Doug

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Shooting at F8 wouldn't have made any difference. With him almost parallel to
the plane, the results would be negligible at best.

Sure, the light is harsh, but the main thing is you got the head sharp.

Doug

Thank you providing the information.

[Satish Ranadive]

Beautiful image.

Regards,
Satish.