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Misty morning Indigo Bunting from Nashville, TN
Would have preferred more profile, but the moist foliage forced me to keep this frame, my first of this open country species. Perch carries the shot as far as I'm concerned.
Canon 600mm f/4 IS II + 1.4x III on EOS R5
1/1600 at f/5.6, ISO 1600
Processed in LR CC and Topaz. Clone out a few poops, the perch apparently a favorite
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Dorian, this beautiful and somewhat rare songbird carries the frame man. What a handsome fella.
I had my first encounter with one last summer and it was quite memorable. They are so small but pack a gorgeous plumage.
The overall composition and colors work very well. Agree with you on the wet leaves. Really nice details shown.
You might consider giving just a little kick in the pants in terms of boosting the tones. Perhaps just a touch muted or flat overeall, but purely subjective.
Thanks for sharing.
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Originally Posted by
Brian Sump
Dorian, this beautiful and somewhat rare songbird carries the frame man. What a handsome fella.
I had my first encounter with one last summer and it was quite memorable. They are so small but pack a gorgeous plumage.
The overall composition and colors work very well. Agree with you on the wet leaves. Really nice details shown.
You might consider giving just a little kick in the pants in terms of boosting the tones. Perhaps just a touch muted or flat overeall, but purely subjective.
Thanks for sharing.
Totally hear the comment about the tones looking a bit thin; I thought the same thing when I looked back at the image this morning. Cheers!
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Hi Dorian, love the image, wish I had the opportunity. It is too bad that we all are not using the same displays calibrated the same to view the images posted because on my screen I like your original post better. Raising the blacks a small amount I think improves the image retaining the lovely soft blues of the bird. Thank you for posting, really nice image and opportunity.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
www.amazinglight.smugmug.com
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Lovely image of a lovely bird. I don't mind the muted, misty look of the OP, but both are very nice. They are fairly common in our local open spaces here, although the County's "management" of the grasslands, by prescribed burning and removal of the invasive Autumn Olives has taken away some of their favorite singing perches, so I haven't seen them so frequently in the past few years.
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Another way of saying the same thing is that there is just too much room behind the subject ...
with love, artie
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Arthur Morris
Another way of saying the same thing is that there is just too much room behind the subject ...
with love, artie
It's funny - I'm obsessive about placing the subject off-center in landscape/horizontal crops (and often well off-center to exaggerate the negative space like with my recent Wild Turkey and Dickcissel), but I don't worry about it nearly as much in portrait/vertical crops (Bobolink, Indigo Bunting, Swainson's Warbler). Not sure why that is......
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ps: The bird is off-center, just on the wrong side (for my brain).
with love, artie
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beautiful image of handsome rare bird, love the BG and the environment. I tend to like Arite's repost with less room. I also like the repost with added contrast
greatjob, a pleasure to view as always
TFS
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Hi Dorian .... oh i love the contrast between bird and surroundings !!
Very well captured , IMHO.
Personally I would tweak the subject even more .... surprised to see the " flat " appearance in one of your images , as you normally push things harder than I would do .
Stunning image
TFS Andreas