Texas Painted Bunting

Gallery: AvianPosted June 5, 201682 views5 comments

This was my first ever sighting of this lovely species. Pretty excited to find this guy just sitting on a fence. Processed using Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC 2014 along with Light Craft's LightZone. Comments and critiques welcome.

Canon 7D Mark II
Canon 200-400 f4 L IS
f5.6
1/320s
Focal Length 560mm (Teleconverter Engaged)
ISO 100

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on June 6, 2016 at 2:51 PM

Superb, Jerry. This is one of the best jobs I've ever seen of bringing out all the colors in this bird without any of them looking overdone. And you even caught him on a nice rusty fence.

devil

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Comment posted by Steve Thompson on June 6, 2016 at 3:00 PM

How exciting it must have been to run across this guy. Congrats! Nice pose and that clean backgrounds neutral color makes the Bunting pop. Great work! devil

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on June 6, 2016 at 3:14 PM

One of those birds that look too good to be true sad

... Very nice color scheme in the bird... Nicely done, as Dennis wrote the colors are well-balanced ! Cheers, Hans

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Comment posted by Raoul Breaux Jr on June 6, 2016 at 5:24 PM

Congratulations on the new bird, Jerry! It is always exciting picking up a new one, but especially so when you get to capture a great picture of it--the perfect pose on a rusty, barbed wire with a great background. You also have a great, natural color rendition of this species. Very nice.

Registered on April 27, 2016, 20 Posts, 142 Comments

Comment posted by David Schoen on June 7, 2016 at 1:43 PM

Excellent processing on this one Jerry. I really like the composition and you come up with a terrific background and perch.

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