Juvenile bird

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

D700
300mm f/2.8 VR II with TC-20E III
600mm
ISO 800
f/7.1 at 1/250s
Aperture Priority mode
Matrix Metering
+0.7EV
AF-C, Dynamic 9 points
Auto white balance
Taken from inside a car

Cropped from 4256x2832 to 2368x1624, 32% of original left (a heavy cropped)

Highlight recovery, darken the bird a bit, NR, set white black point, tone done highlight on the perch, add contrast and sharpen.

A young bird waiting to be feed by on of the parents. After a while I noticed the feeding action was too fast so I decided to bump the ISO up to 3200 at which point the birds decided to fly away. Wish I could get closer but this is as far as the car could go. If anyone know what bird this is, please do tell.

All comments and suggestions are welcome.

[Lance Peters]

Hi - Looks good, sharp were it needs to be - nice detail in the eye and good HA
Like the positioning in the frame.
A little more DOF maybe so the bottom half of the bird is not OOF. Might darken the BG just a tad.
Good show.

[Alfred Forns]

Just the crop hurts this image ... and would have been nice a smaller perch, sort of dominates the image !! With little guys I shoot one then start moving in if possible !!

[arash_hazeghi]

nice pose and BG, wish for more dof so that fee would be in focus.