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Pheasant portrait

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Posted by David Sewell on May 11, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Pheasant portrait
I normally think of pheasants as very dumb birds, but this one just posed for me for ages and almost seemed to know the poses I wanted. This is one of the early shots, later on I changed down to the 70-300 and got some pictures of the whole bird as well.

David

D200, 600mm Nikkor, 200iso, 1/100th @ f5.6
Posted by Robert Lawrence on May 11, 2010 at 12:43 PM
Spot on David. Wonderful detail and the plain background gives it a nice clean look, putting all the attention on the bird.
Posted by Stephen Kaluski on May 11, 2010 at 1:37 PM
Pheasants 'ARE IN' David, good detail and sharpness, wondered if it could have a hint more saturation just to go WOW :wink: Perhaps a slight tighter crop from the lhs and top? :toast:

TFS
Steve :wavey:
Posted by Paul Rosser on May 11, 2010 at 1:58 PM
Lovely detailed image here!
Paul. :wavey:
Posted by keith mitchell on May 11, 2010 at 2:19 PM
David super detailed image, i think the colours are great.
:toast: :toast:
Keith.
Posted by Craig Jones on May 11, 2010 at 2:45 PM
Love the pose and detail,composition works really well IMO beautiful image :wink: :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Heath McDonald on May 11, 2010 at 2:48 PM
Excellent image David, very natural looking colours and the composition works well for me.

Heath :toast:
Posted by John MacTavish on May 11, 2010 at 3:07 PM
Great background. Shows off the colours very well indeed.

Composition is ok, but the OOF brown/red feathers in the foreground are very dominant. Not easy to get big DOF with that rig though.

Cheers,
Posted by David Kjaer on May 11, 2010 at 3:35 PM
Nice portrait David.

David :toast:
Posted by Andy Shepherd on May 11, 2010 at 3:40 PM

Spot on for me too, you have captured some great detail in that face David, first time I've seen the ear tufts on a Pheasant as well, top shot.

Andy...
Posted by Jeroen Stel on May 11, 2010 at 3:42 PM
The detail on these birds is just stunning!
Wonderfully captured!

greetings,

Jeroen Stel
Posted by Maggie Campbell on May 11, 2010 at 5:09 PM
Great detail David and lovely BG. Hard to get anything more colourful. :toast:
Posted by John Robinson on May 11, 2010 at 5:13 PM
Good close up and detail.
JR
Posted by Austin Thomas on May 11, 2010 at 7:22 PM
Nothing wrong with that David.

Cheers

Austin
Posted by Colin Crowdey on May 12, 2010 at 9:12 AM
nice one David, you *could* crop a bit tighter to lose the OOF plumage, but I like it as it is

cheers

Colin
Posted by Bob Cox on May 13, 2010 at 5:44 AM
Thats very simple and nice Dave.

Bob