by Dennis Plank
Western Meadowlark in this case. There was a diagonal brace on the wire on the left side and I took some of the far right side added canvas on the left and overlaid the stuff I stole from the area I was cropping off the right-probably would have been easier just to clone it out and fix the wire, but it was an interesting experiment.
7Dii, 500mm f4 ISL + 1.4TC, beanbag on truck window, f7.1, 1/800, iso 500, aperture priority, center weighted average metering, no compensation. Processed in LR5 sand CS6. Cropped to 13.9 MP. Taken at 6:09 pm on March 20th at Malheur NWR, Oregon.
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8 commentsgorgeous shot of this fella singing his heart out! IMO, a bit too much background ...he looks very small and far away. But, he is a fine looking fella
, and you captured him well. I saw one of these for the only time in my life just last month. Unfortunately, he was waaaay too far away to get a good shot of him. I took his photo, but I will have to make it "artistic" to be able to post it. Wish I had had you around to get a great shot of him
. Maybe, I'll see one again , but closer!
Stunning take of this meadowlark, Dennis. I understand what you'd done for the change / repair and it looks excellent. I use Content Aware for many of those cloning issues these days. Although, at times it does not do a good job and it takes work around such as your idea here.
Out of all the birds I hear on morning hikes this was always my favorite. For some reason it always brought me back to my childhood outings of hunting and fishing days.....
Ha--I've done that, too! :) Great frame and certainly worth the effort. This is, simply, a faithful depiction of a beautiful bird in it's favoured environment doing what it does. I like the simplicity and great moment captured.
I've used that trick to advantage a number of times. Fine if there is uniformity in the matching edges. Another that sometimes works well is just to make vertical rectangle selection in front of the unwanted object, then stretching that over the object.
I don't think this is too small. It is what one would call "small in the frame", but there is good detail and the impression of vast empty space around the bird lends to the overall drama. The singing pose is spot on. Love it!
One has to see this large to appreciate the birds detail/clarity & color Dennis.
Your experiment turned out rather nicely
Dennis: I think this is an excellent presentation of the bird in its typical environment. While the bird is small in the frame, it is of no consequence as it is the one bright spot and there are no distractions to take attention away from the bird. Plus, the bird is singing away
Richard
The background makes it "pop".