Another Savannah

Gallery: AvianPosted October 17, 2016149 views4 comments

As I said earlier, there were lots of Savannah Sparrows at Ridgefield and I never have been able to resist them. This one eventually started grooming itself and took care of the errant tuft of feather. There was a small area of oof ugliness immediately behind that feather that I cloned over.

7DII, Sigma 150-600 C @ 600 mm, beanbag on car window, f/7.1, 1/500, iso 640, aperture priority, pattern metering. Processed in LR5 & CS6. Cropped to a 9.3 MP 4x5 before resizing. Taken at 11:30 AM on October 10th.

Your comments and criticisms are always appreciated.

Thanks,

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Allen Brooks on October 18, 2016 at 8:44 AM

Nice head turn and catch light. Good feather detail.

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Comment posted by David Schoen on October 18, 2016 at 1:27 PM

Very nice Dennis. I like the detail and color in this one. The bird really pops against the background. I probably would have cloned out the OOF stick (left side of bird ) at 30° in-line with the white puffy feather. It would give the bird a little more separation.

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Comment posted by Steve Thompson on October 19, 2016 at 2:32 PM

Nice detail and the pose is terrific Dennis. I love your description of "oof ugliness". devil

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Comment posted by Peter J. Morrissey on October 21, 2016 at 12:41 PM

Hi Dennis
I am with you Sparrows are fun to photograph. You did a nice job with the birds detail.
Peter

Registered on July 3, 2011, 188 Posts, 969 Comments