Most of the fruiting trees in our local arboretum have red or deep red berries, but a couple of them are orange, so it was fun to see a few of these robins picking that matching tree for their feast!
Canon R6 + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/600s., f/5.6, ISO 3200, natural light, handheld, small crop to help the comp, contrast and saturation to taste.
I will echo Brian's assessment. Fun pose with berry, tail up, great eye contact.
I was pretty sure the image was yours when just looking at the thumbnails!
Hi Dan, excellent time to capture the berry in the bill. I really like the color palette with the orange berries complimenting the breast feathers of the bird. I think the snow also adds to the image. Thank you for sharing.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
The colors of the berries make this one for me. Nice job on the framing. Nice to see a berry in the mouth. I hope you had a retirement party for you 7D.
Hi Daniel .... this is an overall very good shot .
I do really like the colorful winter setting , the bird with the berry in the beak is the icing for me .
Well done .
Small crop from left and above = big improvement. Or not?
with love, and loving the image,
artie
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