Red-winged blackbird

[John Mack]

This image was created at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in Tyre, New York on 5/16/20 at 8:43AM. Image processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Small crop.

Canon 5D MarkIV
Canon 500 f/4 IS USM
Canon Extender EF 1.4X III
ISO 1600
f8.0
1/500sec

[Randy Stout]

John:

Soft light, fluffed up pose, subtle hint of green on the crown, tiny perch with nice display of the talons.

I might try a version with just a bit more contrast on the bird, not to cause blocking or heavy shadows, just to give the blacks a bit more snap.

Cheers

Randy

[gail bisson]

Beautiful exposure on the blacks.
You have a noce simple perch that shows the feet well and I like the unusual color of the BG.
Perfect HA and I like the slightly extended wing.
Randy's repost give the image a bit of pop.
Very nice frame!

[Arthur Morris]

Ditto Randy and Gail on the positives. I love that perch; it is a wonder that it supports the bird. For the re-post, I cleaned up a few white specks about the head and repaired some apparently damaged feathers of the greater coverts and at the primary bases ...

with love, a

[Volkan Akgul]

woww.. good photo, update super :)

[Daniel Cadieux]

I love the simple image design and the reposts did add a lot to the final result. I was going to comment on cleaning up the white specks on the bird's face so I am happy to see that Artie addressed that.

[Dorian Anderson]

Lovely view John! The head angle is excellent, and the flat light really helped even out the exposure and preserve details across the bird. Love the super clean BG too!