Gray Catbird

Gallery: AvianPosted May 18, 2011133 views14 comments

A visit to the Great Swamp NWR in New Jersey offered up this Catbird. The bird perched upon a fairly busy branch so I decided to included more rather than less to the comp in an attempt to show habitat.

D3s
300mm f/2.8
TC-20E II
1/1000sec @ f/5.6
ISO 1600
0 EV
HH

Comments

14 comments

Comment posted by Billy Fairburn on May 18, 2011 at 1:59 PM

Hi Charles,

Nice pose an head turn. A bit more dof to gain a little more focus on the top-left branches would have maybe improved it a bit but thats just a minor nit!

Billy

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on May 18, 2011 at 3:05 PM

I'm glad you could make it over to the Swamp. This is a very nice image with pleasing color and a nicely balanced composition.

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Comment posted by John Robinson on May 18, 2011 at 3:15 PM

Yes the extra branches make it, and the pose too - my favourite. Back on with a head turn. Great.

JohnR

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on May 18, 2011 at 3:44 PM

I will just echo what Richard said. Well balanced and a superb view of the bird.

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Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on May 18, 2011 at 5:08 PM

Chuck, I would be happy to get any image of this species. We have tons of them around, but they stay in the thickest bushes they can find. At least they do that when I am around. Nice comp with nice light and head turn. BG is nice too.

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Comment posted by Alan Murphy on May 18, 2011 at 6:04 PM

Sweet setting. A crop on the right would improve it IMO.

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Comment posted by David E Lester on May 18, 2011 at 7:37 PM

Nice, I also like the habitat included!!

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Comment posted by Cheryl Molennor on May 18, 2011 at 11:23 PM

Beautiful light and bg.

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on May 18, 2011 at 11:27 PM

The BG color fo this shot really adds a lot and makes the Catbird just fly off the page! I also like the branches and habitat.

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on May 19, 2011 at 2:53 AM

Love your looser crop - the habitat is well-demonstrated here.
Great pose, showing the back/tail/wings well.
Looks as if you had plenty of light, so a greater DOF might have been chosen - but just lovely as is.
Sandy

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on May 19, 2011 at 7:20 AM

Really like yoour choice of setting and comp Charles

cheers
Rob

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Comment posted by Ron Dudley on May 19, 2011 at 7:53 AM

I like this a lot Chuck. Colors and composition are especially strong. Nice light on the bird and I like the head turn.

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on May 19, 2011 at 11:01 AM

Great details, BG, color, and I like the subdued soft lighting here Charles.
Nicely balanced comp too.. this is a case where more is decidedly better.
Well done!

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Comment posted by Steve Heironymus on May 19, 2011 at 11:03 PM

Chuck,
Wonderful job of capturing such an elusive bird. You can hear them, but often not seen.
Great work!!

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