Scissortail Flycatcher

Posted by jrn813 on Mon Sep 08, 2003 6:10 am

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D30 & 400mm f5.6 @ f8 - 1/350 - Iso100 - Av - Partial - Hand Held
No Crop... Levels, Contrast Adjust, USM In Lab Color Mask, Sized For the Web & Saved..

First Scissortail Of Spring. It Was Windy And He Was Really Hanging On..... I Like the Way His Tail & The Wire Form A Scissor Also.....

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by E.J. Peiker on Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:36 am

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The typical Scissortail post captured well. To improve this photo further you could have used flash as your main light source and underexposed the ambient to make the sky gray instead of white while exposing the bird properly with the flash.

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by Heather Forcier on Mon Sep 08, 2003 11:49 am

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Not an easy bird to get! E.J.'s comments about using flash are good, I have used this technique successfully before and it does make a big difference. I like the rusty wire, to me this works very well especially with the coloration of the bird. Good catch of the whole tail, too!

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by Bruce Sherman on Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:28 pm