ok, everyone seems to like everything to be clean, so here's one that's clean!!;) light is still flat, but i tried to punch it up a little with some extra saturation that i dont normally do. again, cropped a little for composition and did a little extra sharpening than normal too.
D300, Bigma at 500mm, f/6.3, 1/1600s, +0.7EV, ISO 500
cant wait to get some good light under the conditions i had saturday afternoon. i literally had two birds within the minimum focal distance of the lens!! i thought they were gonna walk right over me!!
thanks for looking and comments and critiques are greatly appreciated!!
Looks really good Harold !!!! Would only take a little of the top but love it as presented. Excellent pose, low angle and head direct eye contact !!! It is possible to make a common bird look really good !!!