"Lost & All Alone"

That's a song by "Bread", isn't it?  
This little baby Mourning Dove must've just taken his 1st flight, and landed on a rail not 10ft from me on the deck. He just sat there for the longest time, trying to figure out which way back home was. I was doing some testing with my Better Beemer on my D2X/200-400VR+TC 1.4. So, not wanting to waste this goldn opportunity, I fired off several shots of this slightly bewildered creature, before he finally decided that was enough. Bet he was on that rail for almost 5 mins!
The wide shot, and no, his tail isn't in the shot here, but it's very very short anyway.


Focal Length 420 mm
Exposure Time 1/1250 sec
Aperture f/8
ISO Equivalent 560
Exposure Bias +1/3
White Balance
Metering Mode matrix (5)
Exposure Program aperture priority

This is a 100% crop of another shot. Love this expression!

NIKON D2X    ---    330mm    f/8.0    1/320s    ISO 560

Focal Length 330 mm
Exposure Time 1/320 sec
Aperture f/8
ISO Equivalent 560
Exposure Bias +1/3
White Balance
Metering Mode matrix (5)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Program aperture priority

 

I redid it Frank, you're right

WHat happened, was I did 2 versions of it, and 1 was sharpened twice. That was the one I embedded. I fixed that. Thanks!

 

I know, I figured he fly off right away,

But he didn't. He just sat there! Pretty neat!

 

Thanks Frits! (nt)

nt

 

Thanks Brian, I love that 1st one too!

Even though I oversharpened it. I did upload a new version of it that hasn't been sharpened quite so much. Hope that one is showing now!