Northern Cardinal

[Alan Murphy]

Northern Cardinal

Workshop: South Texas

D3, ISO 1250, 600 MM, f5, 1/3200, exp comp 0.0.

Just in from out S. Texas workshop where we had lots of fun photo opportunities.
Here's one of the many beautiful vibrant South Texas Cardinals.

[thijs broekkamp]

Iso 1250! Beautifull picture!

[Scott Frye]

Natural colors on the cardinal with a complementary background and great action shot -- very nicely presented

[A_Maddah]

Hi Alan
Great shot.I like the wing position and the eye contact.
Serious congrats!

Asad

[Joe Senzatimore]

So you do images without beautiful perches as well.;) Very well done capture. Love the wing spread.

[Danny Laredo]

WOW :eek::eek:
This is too good. Love the wing position and eye contact.

[Vaibhav Garge]

Lovely shot Alan. I liked the eye contact and the complementing background. Would love to see a horizontal composition if you have one.

[Mike Tracy]

Nice pose and the reds look good. Wish the bright area on the beak wasn't present.

[vikrant kane]

Hi Alan
At ISO-1250 this is too good, the head angle the blurred wing tip the complimenting BG.

[Marina Scarr]

Stunning capture, Alan. Love the head turn and the wing spread. It's a different cardinal than we normally see.

[Raymond Barlow]

Awesome Alan, a dream shot!

[Markus Jais]

Wow, this is awesome! Perfect BG, wing pose and head angle.
How did you get the head sharp? Did you prefocus to a certain point or did you just use AF?

Markus

[Morkel Erasmus]

one of the best cardinal images I've seen...wonderful!

[Tony Whitehead]

Superb, Alan. The sharpness of the head and body framed by the wings is perfect - even the HAP have nothing to complain about:D

[arash_hazeghi]

Tought shot to get, very beautiful wing position!!! congrats

[Charissa]

Perfect avian shot. Love the colors, wing position and the eye contact. Great one.

[Sid Garige]

Wonderful pose Alan. Great details and eye contact.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Well, what can we say...
This is a "common" species
with images of it taken "ad noseum"
and then you come up with this image.
Not fair:)

[Gabi Sandu]

Absolute superb shot. Iso 1250 WOW. Great job.

[Myer Bornstein]

Nothing more to be added to what has been said great image and capture

[Alan Murphy]

Wow, this is awesome! Perfect BG, wing pose and head angle.
How did you get the head sharp? Did you prefocus to a certain point or did you just use AF?

Markus

Hi Markus,

I was manually pre-focused on a perch where many species were landing. (I was going for landing shots) I happend to get lucky and got this guy taking off.

Thanks, Alan.