A Boat-Tailed Grackle from Gatorland. Beautiful birds, but they sure do make a racket!
Canon 1D Mark IV, 70-200mm f/4 @ 200mm, f/5.6, 1/400, ISO 640, hand held
A Boat-Tailed Grackle from Gatorland. Beautiful birds, but they sure do make a racket!
Canon 1D Mark IV, 70-200mm f/4 @ 200mm, f/5.6, 1/400, ISO 640, hand held
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Great detail and just the right light to show the colors Doug! I wish for a better head angle though.
Doug, in this, you have captured every shade of purple through to blue. Good exposure to have brought out all those colours, and well done on the sharpness too.
In such shots, details and sharpness are so important. Awesome job on that front. Liked the crop. The greens in the BG are going well with the colors on the bird.
Doug:
Lovely colors here, really like the darker disc around the eye with the lighter shades surrounding it. Sharp.
Excellent eye. (did you have to do any work there?)
On my work monitor, I wish it was just a tiny bit brighter.
Cheers
Randy
A real exposure challenge, beautifully done! Love the colors and the bg, great detail. A very handsome image throughout.
Well done capturing those nuances of blue and black. Very crisp too.
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Doug:
I was thinking how good it looked! Maybe a bit lighter than I would have expected, but certainly believable.
Cheers
Randy
Here's a 100% crop of the eye straight from the RAW file.
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Color and detail are excellent. Just the right touch on sharpening. BG is also quite nice. As mentioned, perhaps a tad brighter.
I like this very much. Details are great. Overall it does feel just a tad dark. Rather than the traditional methods of lightening up the image, I tried a different approach. I've added 3 Omni lights to the image in strategic places via Filter/Render/Lighting Effects. The change is subtle but I think it helps show off the iridescence of the Grackle. Doug asked that I post this, so here it is.
Thanks Keith. Looks great!
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