I have been photographing GBH nesting behavior for last 3 years and this year I decided to push my boundaries a little bit and work on out of box images. Objective of this image was to capture a GBH with nesting material on black background. This guy was picking up sticks from a berm in shadow which provided the dark background. I metered the bird in ambient light on the nest and used the same settings to capture him on dark background just before he exited the shadow region.
I found this stick and wing position combination most interesting out of the series.
Post processing: Reduced exposure by 0.15 during post processing and cloned out couple of bright spots.
Canon 7D 500mm F4
ISO 320 1/2000 F6.3







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