Motif: Rufous Whistler (Australia)

Posted by cahlander on Wed Oct 29, 2003 12:35 am

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Rufous Whistler

Canon 10D, 300 mm f/2.8, 2x, f/6.7 1/350 sec., ISO-400
9/22/2003.

Taken in the MacDonnell Range, near Alice Springs in the center of Australia. I fell in love with this picture when I first saw it. I like the backlight on the bird.

Strictly speaking, this is a spring photo instead of a fall photo, since it is spring in Australia. The colors make it fall, however.

This bird has an interesting song, with a really strong flute like whistle.

Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

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by Piotr Biegaj on Wed Oct 29, 2003 3:57 am

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I can feel this great light and backlight under my skin. Sometimes we can take picture that can spek for itself. Yhis is exactly that kind of picture !
It is not necessery to get very close to bird to get great climat. You did it very, very well!

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by E.J. Peiker on Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:49 am

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A very nice shot. I do wish there was a little bit more light on the bird's face and that his head wasn't turned away so much but still overall a nice shot!

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by Alan Murphy on Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:09 am

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Chandler. I too would like to see him with his head turned towards the camera, also I wish the big OOF light colored branch was not in the BG. The smooth BG is very sweet. Wish we could hear him sing

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by Bill Whala on Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:46 am

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I love the backlighting. The looking away pose works for me but would work better without the bright branch in the background.

Overall a very nice, peaceful image.

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by AlexC on Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:26 am

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Wonderful bird and great rim lighting to boot, a slight head turn into the film plane, a little more light on his face and the absence of the OOF branches in the BG would have been great, still very nice as is!!
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by mhp767 on Wed Oct 29, 2003 4:08 pm

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Forget about the film plane. Why should the bird be parallel to it anyway? The bird's pose is wonderful. Great shot, a very pleasing color palette. Nice composition. Congrats!
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by LHays on Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:51 pm

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Good suggestions have been made. I can see why you like it. I like the colors and mood that the picture gives.

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by Laura Stiefel on Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:42 pm

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I really love the smooth part of the background here. I think the bird looking away in this photo adds to it's overall mood- as if you just happened upon he scene. Very nice IMO.

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by Anthony Medici on Thu Oct 30, 2003 4:41 am

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A pretty little guy in nice lighting. Your sensor looks like it needs cleaning. There's a bit of a spot top center.

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by cahlander on Thu Oct 30, 2003 9:22 am

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Anthony Medici wrote:Your sensor looks like it needs cleaning. There's a bit of a spot top center.

Thanks for pointing this out. I have not cleaned the sensor since I got the camera. I did find some dust on the rear element of the doubler. I wonder if that could be the problem.
Thanks.

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