This is one bird that's so omnipresent that sometimes you even forget that it's there. It's used to people, so I would say that if you move quietly you could get a shot with a wide angle :)
Last weekend ws frustrating, none of the "interesting" birds showed, so we aimed at our good ol' friend. I should have cloned a disturbing branch to the right, but hadn't the time to do it properly...
Nikon D200, AI Nikkor 400mm f/3.5 ED-IF, 1/320, f/5.6, ISO 160
Hi Patricio Might be common but its a good looking bird !!
Would try posting at the max size to evaluate better. Would give a little more room by the tail and take a bit from the bottom. Tempted to suggest to clone out the branches up top for a clean image, they do catch my attention particularly the lighter one sticking back into the frame. I like the pose and exposure. Bg is pleasing. The bird is in mixed light but soft enough that looks fine.
Hola Patricio. Congratuilations, these birds are not easy to compose specially in vertical formats, the pose is very nice and BG is good, the light seems harsh and there are some hot whites in the head and chest, a little color temperature would bring color up a bit and some noise reduction might also help, here's a repost with some BIG post process, hope you don't mind, I am not crazy about having to "touch" so much an image but sometimes it helps a lot to get the 100% of it.
Thanks!
Ramon (it's sort of weird to be writing to you in english) :) Nice repost, it sure works better. I usually tend to work towards getting neutral colours in camera (mainly because I don't like that much the saturation the D200 gives out of the box if I crank it, and every time I biased the colours in camera it was a mess) and then add some warnth either in Capture NX or PS, but for some reason I let this one almost untouched. I¡ll try another version and repost it later, following your advice.
Chalk-browed mockingbird (calandria)
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