Eastern Bluebird

Gallery: AvianPosted September 1, 2013101 views5 comments

Taken at the Ohio Bird Sanctuary. The birds in this open aviary cannot be returned to the wild for various reasons so they spend the rest of their lives eating meal worms and posing for photographers.

Nikon D3X
Nikon 200-400-vr
f4
100 iso
1/500

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on September 1, 2013 at 12:34 PM

Nice pose with good colors. You might want to clone out or darken the light tree trunk going up the left side of the photo. To me it is a slight distraction, but not much. Thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Allen Brooks on September 1, 2013 at 1:28 PM

Nice pose. Good detail and colors. Would agree with the previous comment on the tree trunk.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on September 1, 2013 at 3:13 PM

Nice! The head appears a bit soft, but a lovely pose, perch and background. On a revisit, may I suggest higher ISO and a smaller focal opening? My instinct for this is ISO 400 and f8.

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Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on September 2, 2013 at 7:54 AM

Really nice pose and detail is great. There is a double catchlight in the eye which is an easy fix. Your use of F4 blurred the bg nicely, but you lost just a little detail on the tail. I also agree about the twig going up the side. Sharon

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Comment posted by Peter J. Morrissey on September 2, 2013 at 11:17 AM

HI
Some time it is nice to have a place to sit back and watch birds, nice shot.

Peter

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