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Red-winged Blackbird
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Red-winged Blackbird

by Patrick O'Healy

Gallery: AvianPosted July 30, 201490 views7 comments
July 2, 2014 Audubon Wellfleet Wildlife Sanctuary, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Nikon D-4 Nikkor 600mm ISO400 1/1600 f/8 RAW White Balance Auto Taken on a tripod with a Wimberley Gimbal Processed in Lightroom, PSCC14, NIK and TK.

Comments welcome and appreciated.

Comments

7 comments
Comment posted by Keith Bauer on July 31, 2014 at 10:23 AM
Patrick: I like the feel of this image. The calling pose is nice, the background is about as pleasant as they come. Nice handling of the blacks with details where one would hope to see details.
Registered on November 20, 2003, 458 Posts, 4836 Comments
Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on July 31, 2014 at 3:11 PM
Good timing on the capture and good detail. The BG is wonderful. Where to stop in pulling detail out of blacks and whites is always a question, and partly a matter of personal choice. This is probably true to life for the RWB in harsh light, but I would have been sorely tempted to try for a little more detail. :smile:
Registered on July 24, 2006, 2741 Posts, 12349 Comments
Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on July 31, 2014 at 4:06 PM
Great pose, fine detail, and nice BG.
Another great image!
Sandy
Registered on November 24, 2003, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments
Comment posted by Bill Berry on July 31, 2014 at 7:42 PM
Well done Patrick. Pleasing pose and nice handling of the dynamics. Super!!!
Registered on June 20, 2014, 17 Posts, 71 Comments
Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on July 31, 2014 at 11:12 PM
Classic singing pose, nice job exposing the blacks and good clean image.
Registered on June 19, 2008, 1005 Posts, 8028 Comments
Comment posted by Dennis Plank on August 1, 2014 at 12:42 PM
Nice singing pose, Patrick. It looks like you had some fairly harsh light here and that makes this difficult bird even more so.

:toast:
Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments
Comment posted by keith mitchell on August 2, 2014 at 11:14 AM
Patrick this is really nice, singing pose makes it for me.

I am going over to Florida next week so with a bit of luck I see will see some of these handsome birds.

Cheers Keith.
Registered on July 12, 2008, 127 Posts, 1735 Comments