King Rail

Gallery: AvianPosted October 4, 201070 views6 comments

Canon 7D 300mm f4

Quivira National Wildlife Refuge june 2010

Just by luck this rail came out of the reeds as we were leaving the refuge for the day.

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on October 4, 2010 at 8:52 PM

Nice catch! Good bird and nice pose.
Needs some serious leveling, though! A good CCW rotation is needed to level the shoreline and reeds.
Leaving lots more room in front would have been a more pleasing comp - Try not to center things, if possible. .
Nice bit of reflection too.
Almost missed the frog! cool!
Greater DOFmight have rendered him sharp too

Sandy r

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on October 4, 2010 at 10:33 PM

Fun image, Jay. The frog in the foreground looks like it's trying to look behind itself. Sandy covered my nits.

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Comment posted by Rob Graham on October 4, 2010 at 11:11 PM

nice one, Jay. I've yet to have one of these walk out in the open when I'm down there. Sandy's suggestions are good ones.

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Comment posted by Michael Twaddell on October 4, 2010 at 11:23 PM

The frog made me laugh! Too funny!

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Comment posted by Mia McPherson on October 5, 2010 at 8:23 AM

It is always nice to get a Rail out in the open like you did here Jay. Sandy has already covered the issues I would have covered except I think darkening this some globally might benefit the image.

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Comment posted by Terry Sohl on October 5, 2010 at 4:47 PM

Cool! Love the frog! Didn't even notice him at first glance. Agree it needs some CCW rotation.

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