Barn Swallow

Gallery: AvianPosted April 27, 2011128 views10 comments

Hello everyone. Well this past weekend I took my family up to White Sands NM. Weather was terrible with high winds and in a place where theres nothing but sand its not a good combo. Well at the end of the day we went to gift store and thats where I spotted this little one. Was only able to get one shot. Not the best but Im happy with it. Hope you enjoy. C&C welcomed and encouraged. I had lighten some bright spots around the bird and the branch due to expo bias. I forgot to switch back.
Camera - Nkon 300s, Lense - Nikon - 200-400 w/1.4 tc, Exposure - 1/320, Aperture - F5.6, ISO 320, Exposure Bias - +2/3 EV, Metering - Spot, Aperture Priority.

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10 comments

Comment posted by Balan Vinod on April 27, 2011 at 2:33 AM

Robert ..beautiful image of a beautiful bird, love the bg too ..appears a bit soft on my screen ...well done ..

Balan Vinod

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Comment posted by Angela McCain on April 27, 2011 at 7:58 AM

Beautiful colors with a well matched background. I didn't realize swallows were ever still. I usually get a blurred tail leaving my field. Nice find.

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Comment posted by Barbara Graham on April 27, 2011 at 9:06 AM

Wonderful colors, great catchlight. Good job to get this one.

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Comment posted by Keith A Anderson on April 27, 2011 at 11:19 AM

Great perch and pose with an interesting color to the clean bg. Seems a bit soft to me too, but overall a very nice image.

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Comment posted by Robert Holguin on April 27, 2011 at 1:56 PM

Thank you all for all the responses. I ran a tad more sharpening. Let me know how these one looks.

Registered on January 25, 2011, 44 Posts, 294 Comments

Comment posted by Luca Mussato on April 27, 2011 at 4:39 PM

I like the colors and the composition, I've noticed a small halo profiling the head, but I might be wrong.

Cheers, Luca

Registered on November 14, 2006, 118 Posts, 855 Comments

Comment posted by Dan Harbour on April 27, 2011 at 8:31 PM

I like the perch, pose and background. wondeful colors, I think you've done very well here.

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Comment posted by Ashley Vincent on April 27, 2011 at 9:47 PM

Very nice image of the Barn Swallow Robert and the background really helps make it stand out all the more :^)

The birds I saw more of than any other in Borneo last year were Pacific Swallows, but they fly so fast it seem near-on impossible to catch a shot of one and, being that they don't appear all that colourful anyway, I didn't waste too much time trying. Then one morning I saw one perched near my cabin in a similar pose to this, and was I ever surprised by how different it appeared! It actually looks very much the same as this Barn Swallow, although perhaps it's colours are just a little more vivid. In any case, it was real interesting to see how beautiful the bird actually is after all. Thanks for sharing :^)

Registered on March 1, 2011, 154 Posts, 2083 Comments

Comment posted by Matt Shellenberg on April 28, 2011 at 9:25 PM

I like that pose and perch, Robert. Beautiful background color. The bird and perch appear a bit soft, it appears to be motion blur but not sure of that.

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Comment posted by keith mitchell on May 10, 2011 at 3:47 PM

Rob it sounds like not a good weekend but i recon this makes up for it,i like it a lot.

Keith.

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