Photographed a couple of days back - happy to see this painted bunting cherry picking
Anything - anything distracting ?
Highlights OK ?
Is this a composite: No
Nikon D 850
600 mm, 1/800 sec at ISO 1600 - F 7.1
An awesome image, Karl. The detail in both the Bunting and the perch are excellent as is the exposure and you got a beautiful background to go with it. They don’t get much sweeter than this. The highlights look fine and I see nothing distracting. If I really had to find a nit, if you cropped from the left a bit more canvas on that side would work better for my taste, but I’d love to be able to claim this one as posted.
Thanks @Dennis_Plank - I might consider cloning that single leaf in the LLC.
oted your cropping suggestion - will play around with it
Hi Karl
Panting is the work this photograph. You have a very color full and interesting photograph. Nice work.
Peter
Excellent pose, perch, color management, and background. Agree about leaf in LLC.
Beautiful bird; beautifully captured.
