Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug this is an excellent portrait - shot from the shadow side, I note, with that wonderful halo that the studio photographers like to brag about (and overuse). The common birds can be the most complex to render, I think, because we do see them every day. You've added detail and composition to make a definitive image of a scrub jay. Your work is always good but this is subtle and exactly on form. Bravo-zulu! Adam On 6/2/07, Douglas Herr <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote: > Today's new bird picture, a common but elusive corvid of western North > America. The Western Scrub Jay is noisy and combatitive when safely out > of range, and comes within range only long enough to grab the crumb that > fell from your sandwich: > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/corvidae/wsja02.html > > Alas, I had no sandwich so I got cloe the old-fasioned way: I waited and > wached and melted into the background. > > Technical stuff: R8/DMR, 560mm f/6.8 with UET-R, shoulder stock & monopod. > ISO 400, no noise reduction. Aperture: f/6.8, shutter speed: yes > > All comments welcome. > > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >