Eared Grebe portrait

Gallery: AvianPosted May 6, 2013125 views7 comments

Portrait crop from images taken at Klamath Falls Basin Wildlilfe Refuge Area Oregon.

canon 7D
canon 600mm f4.L + 1.4 TC
F/9.5 1/350 ISO 400
auto window with beanbag rest

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Howard Cheek on May 6, 2013 at 6:56 PM

Great portrait Craig, love this birds red eye and the gold plumage on black's very striking

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on May 7, 2013 at 2:45 AM

Love it!
Wonderful red eye, and the colouring is gorgeous, and set off perfectly by the blue wter.
Sandy

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Comment posted by Claude Dagenais on May 7, 2013 at 7:07 AM

Great detail on this portrait Craig, it really stands out of the background.

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Comment posted by Martin Dunn on May 7, 2013 at 8:21 AM

Craig, that eye is positively demonic. It immediately grabs and holds you attention.
For me the crop is a bit central.

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Comment posted by Charles Gangas on May 7, 2013 at 10:52 AM

Lovely portrait Craig-nice detail on the bird, especially the eye.

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Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on May 7, 2013 at 4:31 PM

Although I like the portrait, in the larger version the crop has resulted in a general lack of detail. Good detail is always important IMO, but in a portrait it is critical, because to me that is the purpose of a portrait type image. To see super detail of areas of the bird up close.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on May 9, 2013 at 8:15 PM

Very cool head shot and look at the eye and transitional plumage of this species Craig

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