You're Having What...

Gallery: AvianPosted December 6, 2015101 views4 comments

...for dinner? Looking through old images for this week's "Weekly Challenge" (upland gamebirds for those of you who don't follow it), I ran across a set of images taken at Bullard Beach, an Oregon state park, on the coast last year. We were wandering through our campground when this wild turkey strolled across the road. The full length images have the road in the bg, but I managed to find a more compatible bg with a head shot.

7D, 300mm f4 ISL + 1.4TC, hand held, f/5.6, 1/400, iso 500 aperture priority, pattern metering, -1/3 stop compensation. Processed in LR5 & CS6. Cropped from the sides (mostly the right) for a 4x5 aspect ratio-full height. Taken September 17th, 2014 at 8:48 am.

I appreciate your comments on the Doves and look forward to your input on this image.

Thanks

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Cay-Uwe Kulzer on December 7, 2015 at 3:03 AM

Dennis,

technically well done, great sharpness and details. The smooth background is also very nice. I find that making portraits of birds is rather dificult and because of that I do not make many of them. I would have liked a type of action, like open bill / beak or so, to make it a bit more interesting.

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on December 8, 2015 at 8:30 AM

Great portrait, fun to so it up close like this ! Cheers,
Hans

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Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on December 9, 2015 at 12:17 PM

A fun image, Dennis. You have to wonder if anyone but her mama thinks she is attractive.

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on December 11, 2015 at 6:54 PM

Nice portrait of this turkey Dennis. I love all the textures in their heads and obviously portraits really show that off. Nice job!

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