Dark-eyed Junco

Gallery: AvianPosted March 12, 201660 views7 comments

This is one of the first shots with this lens. D800e, Sigma 150-600 S @600, f 7.1, 1/200, ISO 2500, -0.7 ev. This was shot with OS set at 1 while on a tripod, which generally hasn't worked too well, but this one came out pretty sharp. My short experience with this lens tells me I would have had a better shot at getting it sharp hand-held at this setting. Cloned out some extraneous branches in the background. Comments and criticism welcomed.

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Comment posted by Jerry Austin on March 12, 2016 at 9:08 AM

Beautiful capture with a nice complimentary background. Well done.

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on March 12, 2016 at 10:55 AM

Really, really nice color tones in this image, Jim. The Junco is exposed spot on ! Cheers, Hans

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Comment posted by Richard Sandor on March 12, 2016 at 12:34 PM

Jim: a fine shot of one of the Juncos. Good to see the LBJs (little brown jobs) get their due. Richard

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Comment posted by S Govindarajan on March 12, 2016 at 3:57 PM

A beauty, Jim. You got an ideal headturn, great background and a very nice color tone throughout the image. Well composed as well. devil

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on March 12, 2016 at 10:41 PM

A beautiful Junco, Jim. I understand that mode 1 is designed for hand holding, but I don't understand the effect on image quality. This has a kind of smeary look to some of the plumage in the larger image. I see you had a pretty high iso-did you do quite a bit of noise reduction? Exposure, pose and composition are excellent.

devil

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on March 13, 2016 at 12:57 PM

Looks good to me as posted. Wonderful color palatte.

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Comment posted by May Haga on March 15, 2016 at 4:36 PM

Beautiful capture Jim. I really like the framing, the perch and the background and, of course, that the bird is sharp.
May

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