An image I rushed due to the never ending movement of these birds whilst feeding. The birds spend a lot of their time on the ground feeding, looking for grubs and insects under fallen bark and sticks. Taken In North western NSW. I clipped the tail slightly in the original and had to add some canvas and a small portion of tail. I used part of another image to fill the added canvas.
Olympus E500, 50-200mm EC14
RAW
f/4.8 1/200 ISO 400
Beanbag rested on a rock.
Late afternoon, backlit required cloning out some circular highlights in the BG, curves, levels, smart sharpen.
Brilliant. Lovely. Great head angle and pose. Wonderfully designed image.
Congrats. And later and love, artie
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You did well patching up the clipped tail and extra canvas Ian - well done! The Grey-crowned is uncommon around my area but plenty of the White-browed Babblers. Your subject here shows excellent detail with a good head turn and nice soft BG.
Grey-crowned Babbler
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