Baltimore Oriole

Gallery: AvianPosted May 26, 2011136 views15 comments

We have a bunch of these guys at our lake. My wife saw 13 at one time crowding her feeders so of course I had to try for some images. I caught this as he was eying some grape jelly. C and C welcome.

1D4, 500f4 + 1.4x, sio 800, 1/400, f5.6, some canvas added to left, then cropped to 5:4 proportions

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15 comments

Comment posted by Cheryl Molennor on May 26, 2011 at 10:08 PM

Great colors and i like the birds pose as well. Nice detail too

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Comment posted by Butch Lama on May 26, 2011 at 10:16 PM

Very interest pose, works very well with that BG.

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Comment posted by Dan Sorochan on May 26, 2011 at 10:26 PM

I like the colours and the BG. The bird is very sharp. The out of focus perch is somewhat distracting. Cropping some of it out maybe would help.

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Comment posted by Jeff Loomis on May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM

Gorgeous shot. I love these, but have never been able to get a decent shot of one at eye level. Sounds like a feeding station is a good idea (grape jelly eh).

I love the pose here, and the bird is very sharp. Love the background too, but have to agree about the perch. Being so close to the head, the soft portion of the branch does tend to catch the eye. Still I'd be happy to have this in my files.

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Comment posted by David Sparks on May 26, 2011 at 10:44 PM

I like the vivid colors against the dark BG and the alignment of the angles of the bird and the perch.

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on May 26, 2011 at 11:06 PM

Keith, very interesting pose. Also love the colors and the silky BG. This might also look very cool as a vertical pano.

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Comment posted by David Williams on May 26, 2011 at 11:46 PM

Different and interesting pose, Keith........I like it. Bird is spot on for detail and color.......well done.

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Comment posted by KC Choo on May 26, 2011 at 11:51 PM

A nice capture of a really good looker!

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Comment posted by Ashley Vincent on May 27, 2011 at 1:31 AM

The contrasting colours are magnificent Keith, I also love the stream-lined pose, very nice indeed :^)

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Comment posted by Julia Flanagan on May 27, 2011 at 6:49 PM

I too like the colors and ready-to-strike pose of the bird. The soft bg is quite complimentary. I also agree that the oof portion of the perch is a bit distracting, mostly I think because it is so distinctly different in sharpness from the bird. If you selectively sharpened the bird and not the entire perch you might want to try sharpening the bird & entire perch to see if that changes things. But that distraction is not much - a very enjoyable shot.

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on May 27, 2011 at 7:48 PM

Nice image quality at ISO 800; good graphic layout to the composition.

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Comment posted by Robert Holguin on May 28, 2011 at 3:09 AM

Excellent pose and background. Real detail in the larger image, real nice colors too. Well done.

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Comment posted by John Robinson on May 28, 2011 at 7:26 PM

One of the most unusual perch/bird relationship I,ve seen
Brilliant !!!
Good stuff indeed.
JohnR

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Comment posted by Monica Siri on May 29, 2011 at 4:54 AM

Beautiful pose and background, Keith. Great colors and detail too. I agree that the oof branch is a bit distracting.

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Comment posted by May Haga on May 30, 2011 at 2:33 PM

Great pose, excellent image.
May

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