Red-shafted Flicker

Gallery: AvianPosted July 26, 2017217 views6 comments

I had the zoom on 600 mm when this guy suddenly appeared. Knowing how skittish they are, I shot one frame of the front half of the bird before zooming out. It was lucky that I chose to do so as it flew just as I clicked the shutter release and I got nothing but unartistic blur. I decided to crop the first frame to a head shot and here's the result.

7Dii, Sigma 150-600 C @ 600 mm, tripod with ballhead and Sidekick, f/8, 1/250, iso 1600, aperture priority, pattern metering, -2/3 EV. Processed in LR & PS CC. Cropped to 11.2 MP before resizing and I added a touch of canvas on the left and bottom for composition. Taken at 8:45 am today under cloudy skies.

Your comments and critiques are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Richard Ditch on July 27, 2017 at 12:52 PM

A very nice study in detail. Flickers are big enough IMO to be shot this way.

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Comment posted by Shirley Freeman on July 27, 2017 at 12:59 PM

I am glad that you clicked the shutter for this one too, Dennis. I am not familiar with this bird, but he is beautiful. Such great detail in the feathers.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on July 28, 2017 at 11:00 AM

Excellent detail! A good study of this fairly large bird. Well put together! cool

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Comment posted by David Schoen on July 28, 2017 at 3:01 PM

Very cool to see this Dennis. I've never seen this species. Perhaps it'll come back and allow you to take more photos. I like the headshot composition.

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Comment posted by Barbara Graham on July 28, 2017 at 4:05 PM

Absolutely perfect detail and beautiful colors on this one, and I really like the result. I, too, am really glad you clicked the shutter release to get this one.

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Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on July 29, 2017 at 11:11 AM

Hi Dennis,

Well done--large view has excellent details and color is spot on devil

............................Jim

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