Second Crop Adjustment:
Crop Adjusted:
Original Crop:
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
A very dreary morning at our local Wildlife Refuge. I decided to try shooting dark and getting this fellow in silhouette. Also converted to B&W.
This one is just kind of fun…
600mm, 1/800 sec @ f/8, ISO 400
Very cool . i love the contrast and the lines in the limb the bird is standing on. Very cool !!!
Good job finding it on that isolated blackberry cane, David. This is a very good silhouette with that distinctive beak so clearly shown. It may just be me, but I find myself wanting the whole image shifted just a hair down in the frame. Other than that minor nit, I love it.
Thanks for your comments, @Gill_Vanderlip, much appreciated.
@Dennis_Plank, I struggled with the crop…and you’re right…it needed to come down some. Thanks.
Nailed it on the repost, David.
Bravo on getting this all to line up and get the bird to pose! I really like it. The bold shapes are at once totally in silhouette, but equally recognizable. Even if you hadn’t said it was a RWBB I’d have guessed. The recrop might have the lowest branch a tad too close, but you could clone part of it away and no one would notice. Very spiky!
Very cool idea and execution! I like the added headroom at the top in the second version, but the LRC makes me nervous with the 2 spurs so close to the edge. Maybe just add canvas on top? Or clone the spurs if you want to keep the aspect ratio.
@Kris_Smith and @Diane_Miller thank you for the kind comments and suggestions. Please see another repost above.
Cheers,
David
Nice job. Such a striking photo. Maybe in a month ours will be back. Nothing says spring like a RWBB call!
Way to think outside the box! Good pose showing off the beak and helping to ID the bird. I like the perch with the symmetry and like the second crop the best. Good job, but looking forward to some sun here in the Northwest.
