The Shadow Knows

Gallery: AvianPosted June 14, 2015110 views7 comments

Just a Savannah Spaarow grooming, but the pose reminded me of the old poster for The Shadow.

7Dii, 500mm f4 ISL + 1.4TC, Jobu Gimbal on RRS legs, f6.3, 1/2500, iso 800, aperture priority, center weighted average metering with -2/3 stop compensation. Processed in LR5 and CS6. Cropped to 6.8MP, so quite a bit of cropping. Horizontal original. Taken June 5th at 7:38 pm.

Your comments and criticisms are most welcome.

Thanks,

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Hans Overduin on June 14, 2015 at 3:12 PM

Normally one wouldn't be too keen on parts of the bird covered in shadows, but in this case it makes the images - especially with your text ! The pose and expression of the bird fit very well together devil , cheers, Hans

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on June 14, 2015 at 6:58 PM

Great intro Dennis, made me cool

Excellent details & control of the light here..

And this birds secretive past is shrouded with mystery and speculation sad

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on June 14, 2015 at 8:42 PM

Now if you had caught it looking over its wing, that would have been perfect. It would have "known what evil lurks in the hearts of men!" sad

I think I would be tempted to tone down the OOF foliage. Otherwise perfect. cool

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Comment posted by Steve Thompson on June 14, 2015 at 9:00 PM

Very scary image Dennis, but well executed. It is certainly giving you the eye. Nice details and capture.

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Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on June 14, 2015 at 10:00 PM

Nice capture, Dennis. The title is cute but I find the shadow across the head distracting. IT must have made exposure of the white malar stripe a real pain.

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Comment posted by Peter J. Morrissey on June 15, 2015 at 5:55 PM

Hi Dennis

The Spaarow's expresion is nice, great detail and color.

Peter

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on June 15, 2015 at 10:23 PM

I like the pose and raised wing in this one Dennis. I might be tempted to crop this as a vertical to get rid of the leaves on the left though.

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