Juv. Savannah Sparrow

by Jim DeWitt

Gallery: AvianPosted July 26, 2015138 views9 comments

Canon 1D-X, 500mm f4 + 1.4 Teleconverter, tripod
f5.6, 1/640, ISO1000

This little guy was food-begging, likely only recently out of the nest. Early evening, Valdez, Alaska.

90% of full frame. Slight brightening and sharpening of bird.

C & C, please. Thanks for looking.

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on July 26, 2015 at 10:14 AM

Hi Jim,

This one caught my eye with the brightly colored flower spike. Is this flower fire weed? The bird is pretty sharp and I like the placement because you did not sacrafice any of the flowers by moving the bird to the left........................Jim

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on July 26, 2015 at 11:31 AM

Lovely composition perched on the fireweed, Jim. On my monitor, it looks like there's a slight bluish color cast, but maybe it's just the shadows on the breast.

devil

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Comment posted by Ray Whitt on July 26, 2015 at 1:24 PM

The bright colorful perch is excellent. Nice pose of the Sparrow, nice work. Ray

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Comment posted by David Schoen on July 26, 2015 at 1:39 PM

The fireweed leads you right to the bird. Nice placement. Nice colors although I also see a hint of cast but not too bothersome.

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Comment posted by Jefferson Silva on July 26, 2015 at 4:37 PM

Beautiful bird, nice perch, great bg.

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Comment posted by Graham Brown on July 27, 2015 at 5:08 AM

The colourful perch really sets off the bird. lovely sharp image and I like the tonal background. graham

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Comment posted by Peter J. Morrissey on July 27, 2015 at 3:46 PM

HI Jim

It is nice to see fire weed again, I spent two years in Alaska playing Army. The framing and detail are very nice.

Peter

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on July 27, 2015 at 6:58 PM

What a beautiful perch for this youngster to pose upon for you Jim.

And you captured him beautifully, an intriguing pose with excellent details.

Sweet One!

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on July 29, 2015 at 9:50 PM

Really like the perch and comp in this one Jim. Very nice work! BTW, I am not seeing the blue cast a couple mentioned...but with that said, if you warmed this up a tiny bit, I am actually curious if it would give it an extra punch to the bird? Either way, I still like the image a lot.

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