Two Hungry Mouths

Gallery: AvianPosted January 21, 2017313 views8 comments

There were actually three chicks in this nest but only two could usually make an appearance out the hole at any one time. spent quite bit of time at this nest site which was in a great spot. Backgrounds were a challenge as was getting close to that eye-to-eye perspective I usually like. I ended up putting my camera tripod on PVC stilts to create this image.

Image Pileated Woodpecker and Chicks, Kensington Metropark, Milford, MI

Nikon D4s, 600mm, 1/250th @ f11, ISO 800

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on January 21, 2017 at 5:55 PM

Beautiful. Steve. I really like the backlit maple leaves as a background. Excellent job on a tough exposure as well. The pvc stilts are an idea I'll have to file away. I do think just a touch more canvas on the left would be nice.

devil

Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments

Comment posted by Keith Bauer on January 21, 2017 at 7:36 PM

Pretty cool capture. Sounds like a tough location. Good for you for using PVC stilts to make this happen.
Overall the image has a yellow/green and a touch of cyan cast. I used a couple of techniques to isolate the issue and came up with this version. See what you think.

Registered on November 20, 2003, 458 Posts, 4836 Comments

Comment posted by John Robinson on January 21, 2017 at 7:48 PM

My kind of bird picture all the way down the line.
K,s repost improves a little. Great stuff.
JohnR

Registered on March 2, 2008, 535 Posts, 2453 Comments

Comment posted by Ken Archer on January 22, 2017 at 5:03 AM

Sweet family portrait you captured here Steve!!! Well worth the extra effort!

A Beauty laugh

Registered on October 28, 2004, 222 Posts, 6683 Comments

Comment posted by Jerry Austin on January 22, 2017 at 8:40 AM

Great family shot. I do think Keith's repost dealt with the green cast. I would go even further and desatuarte the green background a bit. For me, it somewhat overpowers the image. Nice capture.

Registered on January 6, 2012, 651 Posts, 3448 Comments

Comment posted by Max Waugh on January 22, 2017 at 4:17 PM

A marvelous scene, and I love the green background. It seems to lack a bit of contrast, but otherwise, I like it as presented. Though I do see the yellowish caste, on my screen it looks better than Keith's repost which looks too blue.

Max

Registered on September 26, 2008, 428 Posts, 2329 Comments

Comment posted by Barbara Graham on January 22, 2017 at 11:59 PM

:) Many thoughts on the colors of this one, but first I want to say that this is an amazing image, just amazing.

I agree that Keith's repost of this one is too bluish and that there is a cyan cast in the original post and that the green needs to be desaturated a lot. It's quite obviously worth working on almost no matter how much time it takes.

Registered on July 27, 2010, 1310 Posts, 5035 Comments

Comment posted by David Bogener on January 23, 2017 at 9:41 AM

Nice behavioral image. Good poses on all three birds. As stated, a challenging background. Very cool to get an eye level shot as most of my local birds nest 100 feet up a ponderosa pine snag.

Registered on October 30, 2013, 417 Posts, 1255 Comments