I captured this image recently along 10 Mile Grade Road in Hardee County, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.
Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED captured at 400mm
1/1000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +1 ISO 1100 AWB
Post processed in Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC 2018, cleaned up out of focus branch right hand side of image
Cropped for composition and presentation
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Very nice Joe. I really like the colours throughout. Lovely calling pose and I like how the feet are clinging on to the perch. My only wish would be for a rusty fence.
Sharp, well exposed, and a great singing pose. Pointing the camera up a bit would have improved it as there is a bit too much room below the bird. Even better would have been raising the lens a few inches if possible (an reframe as noted above). This would have better separated the bird from the green at the top of the frame ...
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Cracker of a shot, Joe. I like this one lots. While the perch isn't ideal (and seems to have a blue tint to it?), the bird is really gorgeous in great light with lovely colour, tones and detail. Background is drop-dead gorgeous too. I'd be inclined to play with the compositoin by moving the bird down a bit and to the left. Very nice all the same.
Eastern Meadowlark
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