by Dennis Plank
I believe this is one of the juveniles in my last post, but there were 3 of them around, so it's difficult to tell. This one was perched on one hoop of a two-hooped shepherd's crook. There was another on the other hoop, but I couldn't get both together from my angle.
7Dii, 500mm f4 ISL + 1.4TC, hand held (if my memory serves me correctly), f/6.3, 1/400, iso 1000, aperture priority, pattern metering, no compensation. Processed in LR5 & CS6. Cropped to 9.24MP (much more reasonable). Taken July 10th at 8:44 am.
I appreciate all the comments on the pair of bluebirds and look forward to your comments on this one.
Thanks,
Comments
7 commentsThe juvenile bluebird has a beauty all its own, you've done an excellent job with the colors/details in its plumage Dennis.
Interesting BG color shift from the grey to green, it kinda suits this juvie
Well done
Really nice, Dennis. Detail, BG, and color with a perfect head turn. I don't know how you guys hold big lenses still. I can hardly keep a wide angle in one place hand held. Well done!
What a beautiful shot. The bird looks tack sharp and it's a killer background. Did you run this through your noise reduction program? We've had this discussion before, but there's no way my 7dii would perform this noiselessly at ISO 1000!
Allen. I did run noise reduction. I use Neatimage and particularly when you can get a patch of smooth oof bg or foreground it works superbly. I don't even mask. My workflow is to create a duplicate layer in Photoshop, run the noise reduction on it and then use that layer for all further processing. It usually works well, though if there's a particularly messy bg and the software can't find a uniform patch, I'll sometimes mask the bird and create a separate layer for it, then run the nr on the bg layer.
Really nice clean image Dennis. I just wonder how it would look with Bluebird a little higher in the frame. Great pose, sharp details, well done!
These juvis have beautiful plumage that you have captured nicely Dennis. To me the head doesn't look as sharp as the back so I'm thinking maybe the focus point was on the back and you didn't have quiet enough depth of field to get the head as sharp. I would crop a bit from the top.
This shots shows the wonderful plumage of this species very well ! Hopefully I will encounter some on my next trip to California
. Love it ! Hans