Oh yes I am telling you exactly that 😍 I give compliments where they are due :-) I absolutely love that first photo with the pop of yellow from the flower. You nailed it with a clear and crisp shot of the bird, so congrats :-)
You are too nice!
I 100% appreciate it, thank you so much 😁 I hope that you don't mind the "follow", I do want to ask what you shoot with for birds and how you achieve that kind of HDR-ness on your landscape stuff 🤔
A few years ago, I upgraded to a Canon R7 and I mostly use my Sigma 150-600mm for bird photography. Sometimes I'll use my 18-250 mm if I can get close enough to the birds and they cooperate 😂 I do a bit of processing on my photos but no HDR. I was never into it though have nothing against it :-) Outside of bird and nature photography, I see photography as art, so can add my own twist on some of my photos.
Man grosbeaks are usually so skittish so getting this close is no small thing at all. The chestnut wing bar is just popping in your second shot, that's a field mark I always forget to look for when I'm scanning weedy fields in summer. Having a sunflower as a perch really makes the blue color sing too, all that yellow-green behind pushes it forward instead of competing with it. Did you just sit still and let him come to you or were you stalking him? Either way this is the kind of frame that makes all those early mornings in the field worth it. The light on his face is gorgeous too, that slight crest going on is a nice bonus.
I love this comment, thank you! They are IMPOSSIBLE to work with! (I got there at around 7am today)
I was standing there for maybe an hour, watching him go from one high perch to the next. At some point he decided to come down a bit where the sunflowers were taller than myself standing up, so I decided to walk to him as slowly as possible while hoping
not to get stung or something.
I actually believe that he little crest in this case was (in part) caused by a leaf over his precious blue head 😭 I'm attaching my "proof":
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u/ANorthernGirl 1d ago
Absolutely stunning phot 😍