Eastern Bluebird

[Isaac Grant]

Another shot from this summer. Eastern Bluebird from grasslands in New Jersey.

Canon 7d mark ii and Canon 500 f4 ii + 1.4x iii. ISO 500, F7.1, SS 1/3200. Tripod mounted

Converted in DPP 4.5. Exposure +.17. In PS I cropped for square, applied NR to background. Toned down the blues by lowering the cyan, yellow and blue.

[keith mitchell]

Isaac I like these simple uncluttered shots with the bird on a nice clean BG.Colours on the bird look very natural with plenty of detail on the feathers ,very nice indeed.

Keith.

[David Seymour]

Hi Isaac,

I agree with Keith's comments, an eye-catching image. Also, the background has some nice gradations that seem to help the composition. Good color contrast between background and subject as well.

One suggestion: for a static subject with camera on tripod you could perhaps have got away with one full step lower shutter speed (1/1600) and the corresponding one stop smaller aperture, which may have generated enough extra depth of field to prevent the bird's tail just dropping out of focus - admitting though that you may have been waiting for a potential takeoff and flight shot and had the SS set high for that.

Cheers, David

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice and simple, and with tons of fine details. Good call toning down the blues....they look natural this way.