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Woodie...

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Posted by Mike Smith on May 20, 2009 at 1:14 AM
Woodie...
Male woodchat shrike that is. :wink:

Olympus E-3, 300mm plus 1.4tc, car as a hide, double beanbag, IS mode 1. Lighting conditions harsher than I would idealy like. Alicante region, Spain
Posted by Ray on May 20, 2009 at 4:36 AM
Very nice, works well in the frame.
Posted by Lewis Thomson on May 20, 2009 at 6:09 AM

Hi Mike,

What a great bird! I'm dying to see one of these! I really like the comp and you have handled the light well. It seems to lack a little detail though, is it a heavy crop, or down to compression?

Cheers,

Lewis.
:toast:
Posted by Mike Smith on May 20, 2009 at 11:18 AM
It is cropped and started out life as a jpeg file (Oly jpegs usually require little work hence I have become lazy in my old age not converting the back-up RAW files to TIFFS) which has been fiddled about with a few times, so probably there is some quality loss on the re-saving and posting.

Woodchats are fairly numerous in this part of Spain - the hard part is finding them not sitting on a wire 60' up in the air!
Posted by Fran French on May 20, 2009 at 1:09 PM
A very nice find Mike, glad you managed to hunt one down! Nice one.

Fran :toast:
Posted by Ian Mason on May 20, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Nice looking bird in a great setting. It does look a little damaged by the compression issues you mention.