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Northern Wheatear

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Posted by Nigel Blake on April 24, 2010 at 3:39 PM
Northern Wheatear, Oenanthe oenanthe.

One of many visitors to my local dung heap!

2010:04:22 16:43:45
Canon EOS 1Ds MkIII, 600mm + 1.4X = 840mm
Subject dist: 9.3m
1/320 sec, f/10
Mode: Av
Metering: Evaluative
ISO: 200
AF mode: AI Servo AF
Drive: Continuous (high)
White balance: Auto
Flash: Off
File size: 21.1MB
Image size: 5616 x 3744
Color space: AdobeRGB
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: 0
Contrast: 0
Tone: Normal
Custom Functions:
CFn III-2: AI Servo tracking sensitivity: slow (-1)
CFn III-13: AF point brightness: brighter

RAW conversion DPP, other post work (resize, levels and sharpening) Adobe CS3
Posted by David Taylor on April 24, 2010 at 5:10 PM
Excellent focus on the eye and very nice complementary colours of the subject and BG.

:toast: :toast: :jump:
Posted by Ron McCombe on April 24, 2010 at 5:21 PM
HI Nigel,

Nice crisp image and the background compliments the bird superbly

well done
Posted by Simon Litten on April 24, 2010 at 5:36 PM
A mighty fine shot of a beautiful bird.

Simon
Posted by Maggie Campbell on April 24, 2010 at 5:40 PM
What a beautiful bird nicely captured. BG is just made for the bird. :toast:
Posted by Dave Bartlett on April 24, 2010 at 5:50 PM
Can't ask for a more matching background than that. Cracking smart little bird :toast:
Posted by Karen Summers on April 24, 2010 at 6:10 PM
nice image with some lovely detail
Posted by Stephen Kaluski on April 25, 2010 at 4:30 AM
Hi Nigel, lovely shot, but the OOF stone in the foreground I find is just too distracting and the blades of grass keep drawing my eyes away from the main subject.

TFS
Steve
Posted by Phil Mclean on April 25, 2010 at 7:18 AM
Super portrait and lovely complimentary colours.I agree with Steve regarding the blades of grass.

Phil. :smile:
Posted by Brett Lewis on April 26, 2010 at 6:19 AM
Now that all works very well indeed. Superb processing and great comp. Like it very much.

Brett :toast:
Posted by Guy Rogers on April 26, 2010 at 8:00 AM
Hello Nigel.

Super deatail and colour in this and the background couldnt have been better.

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
Posted by Dale Sutton on April 26, 2010 at 9:13 AM
A nice clean shot Nige.

Dale :toast:
Posted by Ian Haskell on April 26, 2010 at 4:50 PM
Nice capture

Ian