Preening wren

[Alex Becker]

Hi all,

A wren preening a couple months back. Have frames with this one posing with the eye open, etc, but thought this was a 'peaceful' pose. In post, NR, corrected WB, cropped to ~60% of the FF.

Camera: Nikon D500
Lens: 500mm f/4 + 1.4 TC
Specs: 1/640 f/6.3 ISO 3,600

Thanks for looking and commenting on prior posts!
Alex

[Daniel Cadieux]

I'm non the fence with this one. On one had the face is sharp and well angled, but on the other hand I find the splayed oof back feathers too much. I've never seen an image of a wren preening though, so that is a huge bonus as these guys do not normally stop for so long! Good perch and BG.

[Moe Richard]

Excellent deep but appropriately saturated colors. I like to detail and the background but would prefer to see perhaps an eye a little better.

[Dorian Anderson]

I never would have known their feathers turned to charcoal below what we see at the surface. The colors and BG are great, but this is a tough image for me because of the thin focal plan and mostly missing eye. I do applaud the effort to show something different.

[dankearl]

Nice effort, needed an eye for me also.

[Alex Becker]

Thanks all, much appreciated...figured this one would be 50/50. This one preened for about 5 minutes in front of me so was able to get an array of fun poses with the eye open as well...mostly the same DOF, but a couple at f/8 where I got lucky. Best,