Female Purple Martin

[dankearl]

Another go at the Martins yesterday..
D500, 700mm (500pf w 1.4)m f8, 1/4000, iso2000
FM-BPN.jpg

[Arthur Morris]

This one looks like the best of the lot to me. Sharp with a good head angle and a nice pose. With a nice BKGR and not so much onctrast.

with love, arite

[William Dickson]

Yes, this is a lot better, well captured....Lovely flight pose, detail and BG. The last time I tried them was when I had the old 500, am sure that contributed to my shoulder injury...Never photographed them since....Not an easy bird to freeze in flight, and get detail, well done.

Will

[Brian Sump]

Dan, definitely agree this is the best of the recent Martins you posted!

Much better from a contrast pov. Compositionally sound and great wing position!

Out of curiosity, where is the focus point? Just wonder if it's maybe down toward the tail as that appears slightly more in focus to my eyes.

You're a rockstar even getting these in focus Dan!

[dankearl]

Thanks all,
Brian, it was probably the tail, these are taken at nesting boxes, there is generally more than one bird in the frame and I am close..
Getting focus is not hard, I took 600 shots yesterday morning in 30 minutes and almost all have sharp birds in the frame.
Just bad angles , wings, HA, they fly at crazy fast angles so getting one in a nice pose is the hardest part.

[Kurt Bowman]

nice job on this on Dan! I like the BG, wings up pose and sharpness looks good to my eye. Nice work!

[John Mack]

My favorite so far. Nice pose and head angle on this one. I do like that green background.

[annmpacheco]

Yup, this is a stellar image Dan, sharp, and i really like the beautiful eye, wing position, and very nice BG, well done.