Standard head and shoulder portrait.
I'm not getting the time I'd like to photograph pheasants this year, so much so that I'm not as prepared as I'd like to be.
Going through the motions invariably gets the odd shot that will go as stock, but for the real gems there's nothing like time spent watching and learning.
This is one that will go as stock and one I'll probably forget in a short time.
Someone asked in a previous posting if pheasants colours changed at different times of year. Yes is the short answer. Dominant cock pheasants will take on a real sheen to their feathers and their wattles will become enlarged and very vivid red, sub dominant cocks' wattles will stay fairly small and on the whole they will not look as well kept as the dominant ones.
1D3
400mm
f3.2
ISO400
1/320
Anyway enough of the sad stuff.......
PS apologies for the last posting being 800px high. hit the wrong size in resizing action
Like many other of the more common birds, pheasants get ignored, how often we drive passed these on our way to photograph a far less attractive creature. Nice shot.
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15 repliesI'm not getting the time I'd like to photograph pheasants this year, so much so that I'm not as prepared as I'd like to be.
Going through the motions invariably gets the odd shot that will go as stock, but for the real gems there's nothing like time spent watching and learning.
This is one that will go as stock and one I'll probably forget in a short time.
Someone asked in a previous posting if pheasants colours changed at different times of year. Yes is the short answer. Dominant cock pheasants will take on a real sheen to their feathers and their wattles will become enlarged and very vivid red, sub dominant cocks' wattles will stay fairly small and on the whole they will not look as well kept as the dominant ones.
1D3
400mm
f3.2
ISO400
1/320
Anyway enough of the sad stuff.......
PS apologies for the last posting being 800px high. hit the wrong size in resizing action
Good stuff.
JR
liam
Phil.
Terry
Bob.