Black-capped Chickadee 3

Gallery: AvianPosted March 8, 2015142 views4 comments

Thanks for your input on my previous two chickadee images. If you don't mind, I thought I would post one or two more before moving on to another species. I'm not a fan of featureless backgrounds in nature pictures, but again I am wondering about the snow patches here being distracting.

Canon 7D Mark II; 100-400mm.
1/125 sec. @ f/6.3; ISO 1250
(shot using an Acratech GP ballhead in "gimbal" mode)

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on March 8, 2015 at 11:52 PM

I do not find the OOF snow distracting at all, but I do find the tree trunk on the left to be distracting from a very nice image of the chickadee. Thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Brian Gatlin on March 9, 2015 at 9:06 AM

nice details and head turn, Wayne. I like the lines of the foreground branches. I might try taking a bit off the left to move the bird just a little more off center.

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Comment posted by Robert Bunch on March 9, 2015 at 10:54 AM

Very nice shot. The BG, snow, tree trunk are OOF enough not to distract me at all. I am also not crazy about featureless BGs.

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on March 10, 2015 at 9:10 PM

Nice head turn form this Chickadee Wayne. I don't find the snow or the tree distracting. These guys are very hard to get out in the open and love the heavy branches. I do however agree about maybe taking off a smidgeon from the left to move it more off center. nice work

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