Shiny Raven

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Description

This panhandler was working the parking lot at Yosemite NP a few years back. I was in my car and it was too close for me to get out and still take its picture. I couldn’t believe how iridescent the feathers were.

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Angle? Brightness? Partial shade partial bright sunlight. Any comments are welcome.

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Canon 40D, f3.2,1/400 s, iso 800, -0.3 ev, 100 mm (70-300 lens)

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Hi Ed, I like the head turn and sheen on the feathers. That’s one serious bill. A lower shooting angle would have been nice but you were stuck in the car as you mentioned.

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Nice grab shot of this guy, Ed. My personal preference is to subdue the exposure on black birds to make the shadows at least look rich black, but I know I’m in a minority with that and it looks like you had pretty harsh light to deal with here as the underside is pretty close to black.

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Hi Ed
Tuff angle, but nice black feather detail. I am still working on getting a good looking black bird.
Peter

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Good feather detail in the iridescent areas.

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Thank you @Allen_Sparks, @Dennis_Plank, @Peter_Morrissey and @Allen_Brooks. I should have dialed up a plus Exposure Value on this one.