Roadrunner

[Nate Chappell]

This is a wild Roadrunner photographed at Cave Creek Ranch, Arizona, one of my favorite locations in the world.. He seemed very curious of me and my big camera rig. Full frame.

Mk3 500F4+2.0X 1/1000 F13, iso 640, evaluative metering -0.3, Handheld

[Dan Brown]

Great close up from a great place (Cave Creek). Sharpness is very nice, BG is good too. I really like the shadow of the birds eyebrow hairs on the eye!

[Trey Barron]

Very nice profile Nate. I might try to lighten up the shadows on the neck and agree about removing the grass stem.

[DanWalters]

Very nice portrait. Would like to see a little more room around the subject.

[Jon Thornton]

The hard light really brought out the fine detail in the bird's head feathers. All those little hard shadows add up. I especially like the eyelash shadows falling across the eye. As others have said, you should probably dull-down that out of focus blade of grass passing through the bird's beak. Other than that, wonderful shot.

[Steve Canuel]

Neat image to look at and study the details.

[Raymond Barlow]

wonderfull shot Nate., fantastic details.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Love this bird and love this shot. The level of detail is stunnig! Congratuloaitons!

[denise ippolito]

Nate, This is a very nice portrait of a Roadrunner, I have never had the opportunity to shoot one of these, so thanks for sharing -the details are terrific!!!

[Jasper Doest]

I tried to photograph these birds while photographing in Texas...but never got lucky...these birds are skittish and run fast! Very nice portait here...the detail is awesome!