Red-winged Blackbird - Richard Ditch

Birds in Nature - images of wild birds by Richard Ditch

Subject: Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
Place: Maricopa, AZ, USA
Date: April 2002
Equipment: Nikon N90S, Nikkor AF-S 300/2.8 & TC20E (= 600/5.6), car window
Film: Fujichrome Sensia 100
Exposure: Aperture priority matrix metered, natural light, no fill flash
Scan: Minolta Dimage, slight crop on both ends of frame

Commentary: I had a couple of objectives in taking this series of blackbirds near my home:

try a style different from my typical "bird in habitat," with the bird abstracted against a pure color background
try my skills at properly exposing black plumage without resorting to fill flash

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