In honour of it winning Australian bird of the year 2021. I took this near Walka Water Works in Maitland, Australia on my last visit home in 2019.
Is this a composite: No
Focal length: 300mm
Exposure: 1/250
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 320
Olympus em1mkII+300mm f/4
Hi Eduard
The blue, black and white coloring, really make the Superb fairywren stand out. To bad it’s standing on a pole.
Thank you for the photograph.
Peter
Beautiful bird - must be a treat to see these. Really nice pose you captured here. A tough bird to expose - in the largest view, the whites on the right of the bird look hot and the dark areas lack detail. Still, a real beauty to view.
The little Fairy Wrens are so hard to capture! The blacks are blacker than black and the blue is shiny iridescent. You’ve captured a wonderful background.
It’s a shame the little bird isn’t perched on a photogenic stick, but you can’t always get what you want. As much as I like the background, there could be another version of this image with a bit sliced off the top…or squished down a bit in Photoshop.
