Red-wing on ***** Willow

[Bob DeCroce]

Managed to get pretty close today, yet still used 1200mm in the hope of using all of those megapixels with minimal (to 35 megapixels) cropping.

D850 + 600mm VR + TC20E III

1/1600 f/11 ISO 800



Thanks in advance for critiques and comments!

[Isaac Grant]

I really like the composition here. Perch and pose are excellent. I find these birds so difficult to get a nice photo of and still don't have one that I consider a keeper. You have a bit of a blue cast to the blacks that can easily be fixed by going to hue/saturation and lowering the saturation of the blue channel of the bird. I would also tone down the red of the wings.

[John Mack]

Like the calling pose the perch and background. Can't wait to shoot these guys this spring.

[Bob DeCroce]

Thank you Isaac and John for the feedback. I have cleaned up the blue cast on the bird and knocked down the red a bit on the wing.

[gail bisson]

Repost looks better. Lovely singing pose and love the ***** willow perch. As one of the few girls on the boards I can assure you it is OK to use the word ***** in the title!
I had a good laugh when I saw the title.
Gail

[Bob DeCroce]

Repost looks better. Lovely singing pose and love the ***** willow perch. As one of the few girls on the boards I can assure you it is OK to use the word ***** in the title!
I had a good laugh when I saw the title.
Gail

Thanks Gail. I did not apply the asterisks. I was actually shocked when they appeared upon my posting the image. I assumed the site did it. Regardless, glad it made you laugh!


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