Northern Mockingbird

[Alan Murphy]

Northern Mockingbird

Workshop: Alamo, South Texas

D3, 300 2.8, 1.4TC, ISO 800, f5.6, 1/4000, -0.7EV.

One from my past workshop.

[Randy Stout]

Alan:

Another great capture,with wonderful techs and excellent wing/tail display.
The framing for this pose and headangle works well, pleasant BG.

Only wish would have been for a bit more DOF for the birds right wing to be more in focus.

Cheers

Randy

[stuart wanuck]

lovely as always

[Gary Esman]

Another great capture Alan, always look forward to seeing your work!

Gary.

[Tom Rambaut]

As larry David would say 'Pretty good, pretty, pretty good'. Sorry been watching Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Fine action shot - The black and white contrast is striking.

[Doug Brown]

Love the pose. On my monitor the bird looks a little too contrasty. Are you using any flash at all? What about a Photo Trap?

[Alan Murphy]

Love the pose. On my monitor the bird looks a little too contrasty. Are you using any flash at all? What about a Photo Trap?

Hey Doug,

No photo trap/trigger system and no flash. I see the contrast too. I may have pushed the processing too much. Thanks.

[RakeshDhareshwar]

Brilliant , as usual !!

[Pieter de Waal]

Alan you certainly manage to get the full spread of wings and tail with your BIF shots, well done. Like the eye contact and raised feet.

[Chris Kotze]

Excellent image, super detail and colours

[Peter Hawrylyshyn]

Alan -
Another great image

In your CD you describe having the staging post parallel to the feeder resulting in "side" BIF images. How did you get the head-on/approaching shot? Did you use manual focus , select a point just behind the feeder, and then hope for the best?

[DanWalters]

Like the details in the wings and tail feathers. Great action as well.

[Roger Clark]

Alan,

Another great image. Another example of a very good phase angle giving beautiful detail in the bird's feathers. I estimate it at about 20 degrees based on the shadow of the feet, and the position of the catchlight in the eye. Note that the bird's left wing shows more feather detail than the right wing; this is due to the alignment of the feathers with the direction of the sun. The right wing feathers long direction is closer to aligning with the sun than the left wing feathers.

Really nice job Alan.

Roger

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the wing position, fanned tail, details and BG. A real beauty Alan!

[Dumay de Boulle]

Loving these wing position and poses...IQ is top class and the exp and BG are great...Cant add anything else...Great image Alan

[James Salywoda]

Incredible shot!

[George Cottay]

I've been trying to catch our mockingbirds in a similar pose with very poor results. Thanks for motivation to keep trying.

[Michael Stern]

Fantastic Image !!! Congrats....Mike