Cool Gray Jay

Gallery: AvianPosted December 4, 201559 views3 comments

Taken w/Canon SX50HS
settings: f/6 1/1600 ISO 400 56mm spot metering

This shot was taken in Algonquin PP, on a hazy cloud covered day. The Gray Jays here are almost tamed. They will frequently allow themselves to be hand fed to a point where they expect it. They are friendly and gregarious, and usually will offer some great opportunities for photos. This one I shot was one of two, who were watching me take photos and decided that I should take one of them, so he posed in the tree not six feet away. All in all I got quite a few very good shots that day.

Any comments are appreciated and welcomed.

Comments

3 comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on December 5, 2015 at 12:13 AM

Nice work with the SX50! Good color and detail. Sharpness is good. While I like the blue sky, I do find it a bit distracting. Possibly darkening it some would help. Thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Cay-Uwe Kulzer on December 5, 2015 at 1:19 AM

Jim,

the overall setup is very nice, rich colors, and the image looks technically OK considering the camera you were using. From composition point of view I would have like to see more space in the left site and less at the right since the bird is looking to the left.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on December 5, 2015 at 2:42 PM

Excellent, Jim. Beautiful detail and you did a nice job on the exposure. I remember backpacking into a mountain lake with a friend who brought a dog. These birds would take the dog food literally from between your feet.

devil

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