Red Flier

Gallery: AvianPosted February 21, 2012213 views7 comments

Haven't used my 70-200mm much since acquiring the 400mm. This is one of the last bird photos I took with it. Backyard setup.

Canon 5D Mark II
70-200mm f4L at 200mm
f4.5
ISO 640
1/160 sec.

Comments welcome. Thanks for looking.

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Keith Bauer on February 21, 2012 at 11:02 AM

Hi Edward: I think you have an image with nice potential. The bird is nice and sharp very nice background as well. The image is pretty dark. I think you could easily improve this with either a curves or levels adjustment to bring up some of the tones.

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on February 21, 2012 at 3:03 PM

I like this as presented. It might be on the dark side, but there's still lots of texture showing in the feathers and overall it gives the image a bit of a mysterious mood.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on February 21, 2012 at 5:33 PM

I agree with Richard. The darkness sets a nice mood. Worth playing with, though. There is solid potential either way.

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Comment posted by wade pettitt on February 21, 2012 at 6:24 PM

Edward, nice image and I love the placement of the bird in the frame. I am going to go with keith on this one as it looks a little dark to me, but not bad. Well Done!!.

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Comment posted by Angela McCain on February 21, 2012 at 10:19 PM

I find it rather interesting and different. Very sharp in the larger image. I might back off the red channel just a click or two to get back the details in the neck area.

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Comment posted by Jim Hackley on February 22, 2012 at 2:45 PM

I like the overall composition with just enough lighter area in the background just behind the bird to make this work for me. I still might have tried to open the shadows just a bit. I would agree with Angela about the neck area but I do like how the dark background really makes the reds stand out.

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on February 23, 2012 at 6:05 AM

Nice one Edward - very striking

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