Red-winged Blackbird (f)

[Joseph Przybyla]

Last Friday I captured this image at Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm (600mm FFE)
1/1250 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +2/3 IS0 560 AWB, single point continuous autofocus, active AF point on the birds head, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC 2017, one intruding branch removed
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Tim Foltz]

Hello Joe,
Nice sharp image with good exposure, I'm wondering if this would look better with a vertical crop?

-Tim

[Joseph Przybyla]

Hello Joe,
Nice sharp image with good exposure, I'm wondering if this would look better with a vertical crop?

-Tim

Hi Tim, thank you for viewing and commenting. I do have a vertical of this image, easy to do in Lightroom with Create Virtual Copy.

[Juan Tolentino]

Nice image Joe, love the eye contact and also like the vertical better. I'm wondering how it will look if you change the crop aspect ratio so you can remove some of the empty space from the top. What's the dark spot on top of the left foot? Is that a feather?

Thank you for sharing

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image with superb details.
Regards,
Satish.

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