Teenage Cardinal with An Attitude
We have had a lot of young birds at our feeders lately. This cardinal came late the other evening and not only fed, but threw the food around and generally made itself known! What an attitude!
1DMK2 with 500 F4 and 1.4 TC. Evaluative metering at EV - 2/3 with ISO 1000 and f 5.6 and 1/500; fill flash with BB at EV - 1 2/3. Slight crop and I darkened the branch.
Thanks for looking. C&C welcome.
Not exactly a pretty specimen. Good detail and angle. It looks a little contrasty to me.
Nice perch and great BG , HA , nice details,expressions. This works for me
TFS
I love the pose and HA here. Your exposure is good as is your BG. However, I think the flash is a little too strong here. I think that the mottled plumage is interesting.
The raised crest and look says it all. :) I like the pose, sharpness and BG and would adjust the white point. It looks like a magenta cast on my monitor.
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Nice image with great pose,sharpness and BG. Interesting colours!
I guess if that is teenager cardinal plumage, then it's a stunner! Love the attitude, it reeks out of the screen, I can sense it!
Great pose and well managed though I'd be tempted to run NR in the BG. Thanks for sharing
I like this young punk ;) Nice shot !
Here too on my screen. When I'm not sure about the magenta or blue cast on my images , I use photoshop , CTRL-U , CTRL-6 ( magenta ) or CTRL-5 ( blue ) and slide the saturation cursor to +100 and I see immediately if there's a cast.Originally Posted by Axel Hildebrandt
Dom :)
Look funny in this plumage. Like the pose and dof.
Beautiful image, great pose and The BG adds well. such a pretty bird too.. Congrats..
I like the pose, and tones in the bg, well done!
An attitude with a raised crest. I like the pose, colours and sharpness. Well captured.
pin sharp and great exposure. looks very cocky. ditto magenta cast, but very slight :)
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