Sorry I’ve been missing from Avian of late. We had to cancel our annual Prairie Appreciation Day this year and we decided to replace it with a year-long blog following the changes of the seasons and talking about various aspects of prairie ecology (similar to what we would do at the event). Since I do the website and am the photographer of the group, I’ve been doing a lot of the posts, and I can get most of the birds out of my files, so I’ve been doing a lot of flower photography.
However, this Sharpie has taken to visiting our bird feeders to see if it can nab a tasty Goldfinch (or anything else that might be careless). I think, based solely on it’s behavior patterns, that it’s the same one we had hanging out last fall as a fledgling, though it’s learned a lot of patience since then. It let me come out the back porch and move around the yard to get this shot.
PS. This post was interrupted because it was back, so I had to grab the camera and see what I could do.
What technical feedback would you like if any?
Anything. No cloning on this. Just normal noise reduction, microcontrast and luminosity adjustments.
What artistic feedback would you like if any?
Anything. I had a looser horizontal crop, but decided I liked the portrait I cam up with for our bird records better.
Pertinent technical details or techniques:
Sony a6500, FE200-600 @ 600 mm, hand held, f/8, 1/640, iso 1600, manual exposure. Processed in LR & PS CC. Noise reduction with Neat Image, microcontrast adjustments to the bird and perch with Topaz Detail 3. Cropped to a 2520x3350 vertical from a horizontal original. Taken at 4:28 pm yesterday under overcast skies.