Black-throated Sparrow
Green Valley, AZ
D2Xs, 600, 1.4, ISO 250, f8, 1/350.
Taken during one of my AZ workshops at first light.
Black-throated Sparrow
Green Valley, AZ
D2Xs, 600, 1.4, ISO 250, f8, 1/350.
Taken during one of my AZ workshops at first light.
Excellent image Alan! I love your perch, especially the flower. Bird's pose is great with a good head angle and eye contact. Sharpness is very good. I was thinking you might want to crop some off the bottom but it unbalances the image and your perch loses it's power as a compositional element, so I would leave it as is. You might want to tone down the cactus a little, maybe just the lower part. But I'm getting picky here. Congratulations on this one!
Last edited by joel quenneville; 08-30-2009 at 07:18 PM.
I love the open beak, sharpness, the perch. The perch doesn't bother me too much as it blends in with the creamy background.
I like this very much. Great shot with the bird singing. The only thing I'd change is to clone on the orphan needles on the bottom left
Alan, Very beautiful details and exposure. Really nice perch.I agree w/ orphan thorns. Gorgeous BG!
Awesome feather detail and oh so clean BG.. Can hardly wait !
Lou
Grand details , BG , EXPO and singing pose
TFS
Very nice image Alan. The realistic setup, the sweet bg and the pose makes this interesting to me.
Szimi
Very nice bird, I love the cactus and the nice clean BG.
Nice and unusual HA in a singing pose.
Did you think of vertical crop here, might work too IMO.
Beautiful one alan, loved the singing pose and the beautiful perch.. congrats..
Very nice, nothing I would change.