Sara & I took a trip to Madera Canyon yesterday afternoon; Her first trip there. The highlight of the trip was a small flock of Townsend's Warblers that were foraging in a tree, of course on the shadowed side...
At one point I saw this Mexican Jay and liked the strong side-lighting on his face.
I'm posting it here as it is all wrong for head angle, light angle and declination.
I probably should have gone with a more square crop to put his eye at the upper right RoT intersection...
Sorry Artie, even with all of these "problems", I still like it a lot...
Canon 20D, 1/600th, Evaluative Metering, ISO 400
Sigma 50-500 / 500mm @ f/ 6.3, handheld
WB & crop in ACR, removed some noise in the sky, burned the front feather shadows & sharpened the eye in PS
To mu tastes, the steep angle is too much and far more problematic than the light here. Maybe if he were looking down a bit, that would have been less noticeable.
Strong profile, though :)
Hi Richard I have to agree with Fabs The angle is just too steep for the image to work The upper part of the head looks out of proportion Do like the experimentation Looking forward to more out of the box I'm always trying !!!
Mexican Jay
