Peanut Butter Grosbeak

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Description

I was photographing this handsome male black-headed grosbeak that was partaking in some peanut butter on a hanging pine cone and he decided to take off and I just happened to get this moment of his glorious under wings.

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Cropping, etc?

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Z9, 180-600 lens, Nikon 1.4 TC, monopod, 1/1000th, f 8.5, 765mm, ISO 6400, cropped to 5652 x 3950.

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A great moment - beautiful colors. The focus is on the cone, but, with a little realistic motion blur on the bird, this doesn’t matter to me, as it’s all about the pose and colors here. Maybe remove tiny white streak on the bird’s eye?

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Looks like it’s commenting on the need for a refill here, Dave. I love the take-off wing spread that shows the colors so well. It’s too bad the focus was on the cone instead of the bird, though the nearest parts worked. That looks like a pretty thick cone, which is kind of necessary for the setup, but it makes getting enough depth of field almost impossible to get both the cone and the bird. Still a very interesting image and well composed.

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Lovely wing position, and the highlights behind it are reminiscent of clouds.