Eastern Bluebird

Posted by smhoer on Sun Dec 26, 2004 2:14 pm

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Shot this fellow on a shoot at a local office park pond chasing Mergansers. He kept getting closer and closer while the Mergansers kept getting further and further from my bag blind.

1DsII, 600L, ISO 200, 1/125 @ f5.6

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by Mike Wilson on Sun Dec 26, 2004 5:28 pm

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Nice image of this beauty. I see a vertical crop working also for this one. The colors look a bit washed out and overexposed on my monitor.

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by KK Hui on Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:07 am

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Could go just a bit darker and I perfer more room in front where he's looking instead ...
A nice shot, Scott! :roll:

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by Alan Murphy on Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:29 pm

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Very nice Scott.

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by Juli Wilcox on Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:47 pm

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What a beautiful little bird and sharp as a tack. One possibility of tightening up the shot a bit would be to lop off some of the space on the right since the bird in facing left and a little on the top to raise the subject in the frame. I think a square crop would be perfect since the branches form an "X" in the BG. If you shot in RAW, you might consider reducing the exposure a third and bringing up the highlights in Levels or Curves.

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