This Willow Ptarmigan female was captured in Churchill Manitoba in early June 2009. The light of the almost setting sun helped to bring out the oranges and browns in her plumage.
Comments & suggestions much appreciated.
Gail
Canon 50D with 100-400mm lens at 380mm, f/5.6, 1/1600 sec, pattern metering, EV 0, ISO 400
You did capture a beautiful orange and browns plumage and I like the eye contact. I also like the feathers on the legs making it looks like it is wearing a furry sock. Was this image overexpose? the red channel seems to be blow out in the white wing area.
Hi Gail - cool looking bird - love the look back pose. Heaps of shutter speed here - might have swapped some that that for some more DOF - head area is just a tad soft.
Some of you whites are in the upper regions - just under maybe.
When I first looked at this in the thumbnail I thought it need some CW rotation - No I see its because of the curved line in the BG that gives the illusion of being the horizon.
beautiful bird, gail. i might tone the whites a little bit. there's an out of focus something vertical in the frame over the tail of the bird that if smoothed out would make the bg really nice. there looks to be a dust bunny in the lower left corner.
Soft light and interesting bg I think your point of focus is on the shoulder rather than the eye and might want to have a little more room to the right of frame than left !!!
One bird I would love to have in my files Big Congrats !!!
Willow Ptarmigan @ Sunset
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