Swainson's Thrush

Gallery: AvianPosted June 22, 2017128 views4 comments

I liked the quizzical look I was getting from the Thrush; not so much the perch which was the railing on a foot bridge across a creek. Note: he's missing a leg.

Canon 7d Mark II
Sigma 150-600 at 500 mm
1/640 at f6.3
ISO 640
A very cloudy day.

Thanks for looking. Comments and suggestions are appreciated.

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Stephen Kaluski on June 22, 2017 at 11:25 AM

Hi Allen, I too like the 'quizzical look and jaunty HA.

Any more below, as it looks like he/she is slipping out of frame and would avoid what looks to be a fraction of clipping the claw??? The 'blurring' looks a bit OTT I feel, it doesn't look natural??? I think you could have easily gone to ISO800 to add a bit more to the SS.

Looking at the larger version I might drop the purple (not magenta), so you have a more neutral fence. Whether you up the exposure a fraction and drop the sat is personal choice, hard to say/judge on visually looking at the larger image. Just my take.

TFS
Steve

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Comment posted by Jim Hansen on June 22, 2017 at 5:23 PM

You got a nice pose from this thrush Allen. As Stephen has pointed out, it would have been nice to have a bit more room at the bottom. The bird is not uniformly in focus for some reason. Of course, a better situation would have been to have the bird more on the right of the frame. Or maybe a vertical crop would be more effective?

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Comment posted by Shirley Freeman on June 22, 2017 at 8:14 PM

He does have a quizzical look that you just have to love. I agree with Stephen and Jim.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on June 22, 2017 at 11:29 PM

Nice catch, Allen. Unusual to find this species out in the open like this. I like the pose. The oof rail seems to rise to the right and I wonder if you could carefully clone over part of it to make it parallel with the bottom of the frame, which I think would reduce it's impact.

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