Orchard Oriole

Gallery: AvianPosted May 16, 2011212 views20 comments

This was made this weekend at Matthew Studebaker's Ohio workshop in northern Ohio. It was a wild weather weekend, but we were lucky most of the time. This was an Oriole setup on the shores of Lake Erie. Fantastic experience and great teacher. There were dozens of Orioles around us constantly. I have so many photos, but I was excited to post at least one. Please critique.

Canon 1D Mark IV
Canon 600mm f/4
ISO 640, 1/200th @ f/4.5
Eval Meter +1/3, Av Mode, no flash
LR3.4, crop, sharpen, curve adj.

Comments

20 comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on May 16, 2011 at 10:27 AM

Fine image! I like the way you have the oriole framed with the blooms on the branches. I like the detail you captured in the darker areas. Thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Ron Dudley on May 16, 2011 at 10:31 AM

This one landed in just the right spot Bryan. Lovely colors in the perch. Personally I'd like to see a bit more DOF for some of the flowers at bottom but it doesn't look like you had enough light to manage that.

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Comment posted by Bryan Hix on May 16, 2011 at 11:01 AM

Yes Ron, the light was a huge factor. I would have love to shoot like f/8 or so, but it was very overcast and drizzling at the time.

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Comment posted by Balan Vinod on May 16, 2011 at 11:10 AM

Bryan ...the maze of pink against the green BG makes the difference ...well done ..

Balan Vinod

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on May 16, 2011 at 11:43 AM

Bryan, I echo Ron's sentiments on this one, but you obviusly did the best you could with the available light. Love this branches around this bird!! Very well seen.

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Comment posted by Luke Ormand on May 16, 2011 at 12:00 PM

Beautiful image of a real nice bird

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Comment posted by Monica Siri on May 16, 2011 at 12:43 PM

Lovely comp, Bryan. The pose, the colors and the setting are beautiful.

Registered on September 20, 2009, 132 Posts, 3764 Comments

Comment posted by Keith A Anderson on May 16, 2011 at 3:06 PM

Very nice, Bryan. Nice perch, head turn and bg. I agree with the dof discussion. In a perfect world I'd vote for the bird to face the other way so that the upward facing branch would be to the bird's back and not it's face. Then I'd probably crop to a 5x4 ration. That said, this is a great shot and I'd be very pleased with it. Especially after trying to capture my own image of an Orchard Oriole in the rain this weekend and gettingnowhere near so nice a result.

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Comment posted by Alan Murphy on May 16, 2011 at 4:13 PM

Beautiful image. A bit over saturated for me.

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Comment posted by Butch Lama on May 16, 2011 at 4:15 PM

Beautiful setting,great BG.

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on May 16, 2011 at 4:39 PM

Beautiful! Excellent pose, great detail.
The pink blossoms and branches frame the bird well.
My only suggestion would be to consider a tighter crop, if possible.

Sandy

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Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on May 16, 2011 at 6:39 PM

Really nice Brian. No nits from me. I would love to have taken this.

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Comment posted by Bryan Hix on May 16, 2011 at 6:43 PM

The color space as posted was sRGB, here is RGB Adobe 1998. I did not adjust or add saturation on the photo at all, so it might be the color conversion? I also added some more fill light to the bird as I felt the first was a little dark. I am baffled about the saturation, but I looked at this on the back of my camera just now and this is pretty close to what the camera captured, so I guess I will leave it. Thanks for the comments. I appreciate them.

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Comment posted by Cheryl Molennor on May 16, 2011 at 8:40 PM

Beautiful perch, great pose and detail.

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Comment posted by KC Choo on May 16, 2011 at 9:16 PM

Love it! It's an Oriole I would love to see.

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on May 17, 2011 at 6:44 AM

Lovely shot Bryan - love the colours and comp. For the benefit of an ignorant Australian - what does an oriole set-up consist of?

cheers
Rob

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Comment posted by Bryan Hix on May 17, 2011 at 11:00 AM

The Setup was basically a hummingbird feeder set near an attractive branch. I was in a blind and the green BG was the grass in the yard.

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Comment posted by John Robinson on May 17, 2011 at 6:43 PM

Second one for me. Wish we had goodies like this over here!
As has been mentioned - nice framing by the branches.
Another "click on the thumbnail " job !
JohnR
Wyre Forest UK

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Comment posted by May Haga on May 17, 2011 at 7:19 PM

Excellent setting. Very nice image.
May

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Comment posted by Jim Hackley on May 18, 2011 at 2:43 PM

Wonderful composition to this setup. For some reason the second post looks better to me but a fine shot all the way around, nice job in getting this.

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