Black-capped Donacobious

Gallery: AvianPosted October 14, 2014154 views12 comments

Canon 1D-X, 300mm x 2.0TC, handheld
f5.6, 1/500, ISO400

Typical Donacobious behavior: a pair dueting, bobbing their heads and wagging their tails at each other. Early morning light, Pantanal, Brazil.

Cropped to vertical. Slight sharpening to birds.

C & C, please, Thanks for looking.

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on October 14, 2014 at 9:14 PM

Nice work, Jim. Good detail on this colorful duo. The OOF stems in the LRC are kind of superfluous, but they don't really hurt anything.

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Comment posted by Tjie Poo on October 14, 2014 at 11:02 PM

It is a beauty Jim ! Great details and composition. Gorgeous background and lighting. If it was mine, I'd clone out the oof branches at the lrc. But I guess it is just a matter of taste.

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on October 15, 2014 at 1:35 AM

Jim,
A delightful image , the contrasting poses add greatly

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on October 15, 2014 at 6:44 AM

A wonderful photo of this pair on the same reed Jim

Great poses and sharp details in both birds. I enjoyed hearing the loud voices of these birds in the Amazon Rain Forest, one of my favorite sounds.

Sweet One!

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Comment posted by Chet Dowell on October 15, 2014 at 12:49 PM

Very nice capture, Jim.I like the varied poses, and background. Good detail. Well done. Chet

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Comment posted by S Govindarajan on October 15, 2014 at 1:38 PM

Excellent composition of a pair of interesting birds, Jim. They emphasize the lines in the image. You got perfect head turns from both the birds. The background. exposure and focus are perfect.

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Comment posted by Bill Leggett on October 15, 2014 at 1:54 PM

Very nice, Jim, and nice eye contact and focus on the pair.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on October 15, 2014 at 6:35 PM

Excellent shot Jim, beautiful poses and bg. The birds must have lined up perfectly for you as you shot this wide open, I would have been down at iso 800 and F8 or so.

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Comment posted by Steve Thompson on October 15, 2014 at 6:39 PM

I agree about the LRC Jim and the LLC could use a tad more room, but what a fantastic image of these two. I really like the way their eyes pop!

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on October 15, 2014 at 8:56 PM

Nice job getting both sharp in the fame and especially getting a nice head turn from both birds. I do wish the birds were positioned a bit different in the frame so the left tails wasn't so close to the edge....just a small movement really. Not sure you have the canvas, but would be so easy to add with this BG if you chose to go that route. Still nice work all around Jim.

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on October 17, 2014 at 7:07 AM

Great shot Jim - good to get both birds in focus and looking in the right direction. I think you could possibly get away with a slightly narrower crop

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Comment posted by Greg Oakley on October 23, 2014 at 2:02 AM

Awesome image Jim - well done on getting the pair

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