Northern Beauty

Gallery: AvianPosted March 1, 2012123 views5 comments

The female Norther Cardinal is one of the more beautiful of the fairer sex of birds.

*Sony a700 with Sony G series 79-400 f3.5 zoom @ 400mm
*Manfrotto pro 3 tripod and Flashpoint f3 ballhead
*1/250 sec at f6.7 with ISO 2000

Processed Raw in LR3, noise reduction
*Crop and color correction in CS5
*~20% crop

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by dan elster on March 1, 2012 at 5:38 PM

I like the two toned backround, the angled perch and of course the bird too. I would be tempted to sharpen the cardinal a little bit more.

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Comment posted by Alan Murphy on March 1, 2012 at 9:33 PM

Nice pose. Agree on the sharpening.

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on March 5, 2012 at 6:13 PM

Nice pose and colours, and I like the two-tone BG.
I agree that the bird (only) could use a bit more sharoening.
Sandy

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Comment posted by Lucy Aron on March 11, 2012 at 5:32 PM

Shallow dop and colors work great. Excellent shot.

lucy

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Comment posted by Verdon on May 7, 2012 at 10:51 PM

great shot with nice pose and sweet BG

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