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Sage Grouse

by Dennis Plank

Gallery: Weekly ChallengePosted December 6, 201560 views4 comments
From a lek Near Malheur NWR this March. 

7D2, 500mm f4 ISL + 2.0TC, beanbag on truck window, f/8, 1/1250, iso 1250, aperture priority, center weighted average metering, +1/3 stop compensation.  Processed in LR5 & CS6.  Cropped to 10.5 Mpixels.  Taken at 7:34 am on March 21st.

Thanks,

Comments

4 comments
Comment posted by Mark Seaver on December 6, 2015 at 9:35 PM
You sure caught this guy strutting his stuff, Dennis.  The bird is nicely positioned in the frame and the surroundings speak of the open spaces that these birds like.  Wow, a 7D2, 500mm lens and a 2.0 TC, that's a 1600mm equivalent! laugh
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Comment posted by David Schoen on December 6, 2015 at 11:02 PM
Impressively sharp for 1600mm equiv. and thats no beans.  The tail spikes are really cool.  I didn't see one of these when I was in Malheur.
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Comment posted by John Tobias on December 7, 2015 at 12:41 PM
Good catch of the display behavior!  For me anyway, I would liked to have seen more of the birds face.  Also, a bit more detail in the highlight area of its ruff.  Never seen one of these birds in the wild, must be impressive to see their displaying.  TFS.
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Comment posted by Cay-Uwe Kulzer on December 13, 2015 at 1:50 AM
Dennis,

a very nice behaviour pose and you made the best out of the existing light conditions.
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