Mountain Bluebird-Female

Gallery: AvianPosted July 17, 201281 views7 comments

Last year when I visited the Centennial Valley I as able to get a couple of nice images of male mountain bluebirds, but none of the female. This year one of my goals was to get some shots of females. This is one of my favorites. I like the perch, perspective, and spider in the beak.

Canon 1DM4
Canon 500mm + 1.4x TC
ISO 1000
f/8
1/100s
Manual exp.
Hand held
not a set up
Bit of NR on the BG only

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Brian Gatlin on July 17, 2012 at 8:33 AM

love the spider, Ron, and great details. good work on the dof, and very impressive handholding at 1/100!

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Comment posted by Eirini Pajak on July 17, 2012 at 10:00 AM

That's great to see the spider! Honestly I can't even hand hold & come out so good at 1/200 at 400mm! Beautiful image!

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Comment posted by Simon Bennett on July 17, 2012 at 4:55 PM

Nice pose and background colours, and the spider adds interest.

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on July 17, 2012 at 4:57 PM

Very nice. I love the understate colors in this.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on July 18, 2012 at 10:15 AM

Beautiful, Ron. Not much to add to your own notes. Where's the Centennial Valley?

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on July 19, 2012 at 3:29 AM

Nice eye contact Ron - like the spider

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Comment posted by Ray Whitt on July 19, 2012 at 6:29 AM

Great catch, love the little spider!

Ray

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