Graceful Bluebird

Gallery: AvianPosted February 15, 2015123 views10 comments

This is a recent image I obtained of an ascending female Bluebird. She had been down on the ground and was flying up to a nearby tree.
Comments, and suggestions are appreciated.

D7100, Nikkor 70-300mm WR @ 240mm, ISO 250, f/5.6, 1/8000 sec.

Comments

10 comments

Comment posted by Jerry Austin on February 15, 2015 at 9:51 AM

Man, you nailed this one. I'm surprised you were able to freeze the motion at only 1/800s. Nice action and I love the wing feather detail.

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Comment posted by Charles Rose on February 15, 2015 at 10:13 AM

Hi Jerry, Thank you sir! Sorry about the shutter speed typo. It was at 1/8000 second. I corrected it.

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Comment posted by John Neukirch on February 15, 2015 at 4:55 PM

The capture of the blue bird is very cool, unfortunately the BG noise in the large version is quite distracting. Was this a substantial crop?

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Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on February 15, 2015 at 6:16 PM

Hi Charles,

Get that noise corrected and the image will be at its best. The bluebird is nice and sharp and positioned perfectly for the composition. Lovely color too

.......Jim

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Comment posted by Thiraviyam Yogaraj on February 16, 2015 at 12:13 AM

What a wonderful action oriented shot.

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on February 16, 2015 at 10:26 AM

Charles,
Truly beautiful, the noise in the BG sholuld be easily resolved, but not the end of the world

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Comment posted by Charles Gangas on February 16, 2015 at 11:21 AM

Stunning capture Charles. I would, as has already been noted, run some NR on a background layer.

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on February 17, 2015 at 2:55 AM

Lovely spread wings Charles

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on February 22, 2015 at 1:53 PM

Perfect shot, getting birds flying up is not that easy at all .... Impressed

, Hans

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Comment posted by Patrick O'Healy on February 22, 2015 at 6:51 PM

Charles,
Great catch. Agree with the others regarding the noise. Did you have room to add space to the left of the bird? While not as detailed, the composition might be pleasing.

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