Red Winged Blackbird

[John Mack]

This image was created at Montezuma national wildlife refuge in Tyre, New York on 4/12/18 at 11:16AM. Image adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Slight crop.

Canon 5D MarkIV
Sigma 150-600 Contemoorary
600mm
ISO 1600
f9.0
1/200sec

[John Whaley]

A nice capture of this always willing model. I can almost hear him calling. Wonderful smooth background and the wing color patch looks good. It is easy to over saturate. It might be worth selectively bringing up the shadows a bit on the breast where on my monitor there is little detail available.

[Noel Heustis]

John - Nice and simple with a beautiful bg. Nice mid-call catch.

[Mike Poole]

Lovely simple but effective portrait, great singing pose, nice perch and killer BG all combine well

Mike