Crowned Crane

[Ed Cordes]

Crowned Cranes are among my favorites. While this was back lit a bit I like the way the lighting shows up the "crown". 1D MK4 with 300 F4. Evaluative metering at ISO 100 with EV + 2/3 and F 5.6 with 1/320. Cropped a bit. Processed in LR and CS4. Thanks for looking. C&C welcome.

[Robert O'Toole]

Great subject and nice framing, good job on the challenging side/back light. Yes the crown does light up nicely.

I would run NR on the BG, there is some noise and the bokeh looks like you used a extender almost.

Robert

[Doug Brown]

Good-looking bird with a great pose. Agree about the NR. I tend to avoid ISO 100 and 200 entirely when photographing birds with a camera as capable as the Mark IV. The extra shutter speed and DOF that you get can really improve your images.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Ed,
They were one of my fav's too! Does appear to need noise reduction....but at ISO 100?.....may have been introduced in pp'ing.