Both the Red Wing Starling and "the Mountain Bottle brush plentiful in Drakensberg, the birds love the nectar secretions in the flowers, in the early morning they visit all the flowers.
Camera Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Date/Time: 2008:08:19 07:41:22
Shutter speed: 1/800 sec
Aperture: 10
Exposure mode: Av
Exposure compensation: +1/3
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: Continuous
ISO: 1250
Lens: EF500mm f/4L IS USM +2.0x
Focal length: 1000mm
Subject distance: 23 m
AF mode: AI Servo AF
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Last edited by Loukie Viljoen; 08-23-2008 at 10:11 AM.
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I like the eye contact, flower and BG. I might sharpen the bird more and remove the sheen from the upper mandible. I think you need to clean your sensor. There is a spot above the head and some on the right side. Maybe some NR on the BG, too.
Nice flower and bg. The perch is not as interesting as the flower. I am surprised that there are number of spots on the sensor, some below the flower. I don't have a Mark III, so interested to know how often you are required to clean the sensor with a brush or any other technique.
Lovely bird, flower, pose and bg. I love the clean simplicity of this image. Dust spots mentioned are easy to remove with the spot healing brush. I would sharpen the lower leg and tail of the bird with a sharpening mask and would also remove the bill sheen. Very nice image!
Very nice as above. The face too could use some additional sharpening and a bit of lightening. The head angle is off by about one degree; does not seem like much but if the head had been turned one degree towards you rather than one degree away from you the face would have been perfectly lit.
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Red Wing Starling with Greyia sutherlandii
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