Green Jay Portrait

Gallery: AvianPosted January 15, 2012342 views17 comments

Laguna Seca Ranch. Edinburg, TX. January 2012

D3. ISO 1250. 500/4 f 6.3 1/400s. Cloudy day. Gitzo tripod. Wimberly head. From a bird blind. This is an extreme crop. Only about 10% of original image, but still with a lot of detail. I like the crest.

Alan Murphy Workshop.

Comments

17 comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on January 15, 2012 at 7:14 PM

A nice portrait for all the size of crop. The worst of it is in the mint colored feathers, where the high crop really causes a lot of degradation. The BG is lovely and complementary. There is an area at the top of the beak which has vanished into the BG.

What prevented you from less of a crop?

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Comment posted by Angela McCain on January 15, 2012 at 7:22 PM

?My distance from the bird?

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on January 15, 2012 at 8:17 PM

Love green jays and this is a great portrait. Excellent view of the crest, face, and eye. A little more crop than the image can handle, though.. I think what Dennis meant was along the lines of "why crop so much that parts are soft, when you have (presumably) the whole bird to start with.
Sandy

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Comment posted by Terry Sohl on January 15, 2012 at 8:20 PM

It holds up quite well for the crop. I find the brighter spot in the UL a bit distracting, but definitely not a killer.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on January 15, 2012 at 8:20 PM

Let me rephrase: If less of a crop would have netted you more of the bird, what prevented you? Looked at another way, what decided you on a portrait? I am just curious as to what your thought process was.

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Comment posted by Angela McCain on January 15, 2012 at 8:39 PM

Sorry, I was being cute ( or maybe not :-). There was another bird behind him.

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Comment posted by John Blumenkamp on January 15, 2012 at 9:29 PM

Great portrait with awesome detail Angela. I really like the soft, brighter tone background that makes this bird really shine.

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Comment posted by John Robinson on January 16, 2012 at 6:18 AM

Novel approach. Very nice indeed.
I like head portraits.
JohnR

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Comment posted by keith mitchell on January 16, 2012 at 7:50 AM

Angela it looks very clean and detailed to me,like it a lot.

Keith.

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Comment posted by Eirini Pajak on January 16, 2012 at 8:29 AM

It's amazing how much detail it has for being cropped so much. It is quite beautiful...almost looks like an airbrush!

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on January 16, 2012 at 1:04 PM

Amazingly nIce for such a large crop. Beautiful Angela

Ken Archer

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on January 16, 2012 at 2:53 PM

Wow, enormous detail indeed for a 10% crop. The colors and exposure makes it art for me (with a big A). Well done, Cheers, Hans

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on January 16, 2012 at 4:23 PM

Very cool image, Angela. Every once in awhile when the image quality supports it, I like one of these extreme crops. This one is great. Superb detail and the cloudy day let all the colors come through perfectly.

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Comment posted by Ray Whitt on January 17, 2012 at 12:47 AM

Excellent portrait, the feather detail in the crest is great.

Ray

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Comment posted by Luca Mussato on January 17, 2012 at 3:56 PM

nice portrait, great colors, but I am distracted by the bright spot on the ULC.

Cheers Luca

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Comment posted by Angela McCain on January 17, 2012 at 5:12 PM

2 people have mentioned "a bright spot" in the ULC. I cannot see it on multiple computers. It's not on the image itself
?something on the web or site itself. Once in a while I have pixelations on other people's images. ?related to that. Sorry you can see something that "isn't really there.

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Comment posted by May Haga on January 20, 2012 at 5:52 PM

Excellent image Angela.
May

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