Western Australian Outback - 1D3, 500mm+2xTC, hand held, 1/400, F8, ISO 800, manual exposure
This is another rarely seen Australian bird.
Western Australian Outback - 1D3, 500mm+2xTC, hand held, 1/400, F8, ISO 800, manual exposure
This is another rarely seen Australian bird.
Jim Neiger - Kissimmee, Florida
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Love the pose, perch and BG, Jim. Amazingly sharp considering a hand-held 500 mm x 2.0 TC shot - you have steady hands! Maybe the bottom of the perch could be burned in just a little...
Beautiful bird...unknown for me. Like the pose and colors....love the BG...is it natural? I find the image pretty noisy though. Did you compensate the exposure in ACR to the right?
Great capture Jim. As you said, you don't see many photos of this species. I like the detail you've been able to capture and the typical finch pose on a grass stem.
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Rob
hey Jim
I also see a lot of noise, though I am sitting in a shopping center at a terminal. Nice pose and great soft BG. Wonderful to see a different bird. Some good detail there. Thanks for sharing.
It could use some noise reduction and the BG could go darker IMO.
Nice pose, nice detail, nice species and comp.
Congratulations!
Very nice colors, good perch, head angle and background.
Stunning bird, love the light and head turn.
I'll echo the beautiful bird comments. I also agree a darker BG would be better, but it is nice as presented. Nice sharp eye with good feather detail. HH is a great achievement.
I like pose, typical perch and clean background. The birds colours are well captured
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Very similar to our red headed finch. Super pose and head turn, and I would darken the BG a tad.
Hi Jim, Jackie flipped over your Star Finch. She is the id bird lady in the family; says thanks for the sharing your image with her!
Cheers, Jay
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All sais above, I loved the image and a little more work on it would make it great. congrats..
We have a similar species here, I am still hunting it to make a decent image..
Beautiful bird and pose, Jim.
You've clearly got the hands and eye of a highly trained marksman to pull this off at 1000mm hand held.
Sweet looking bird
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