Handsome is as handsome does!
The crows are back in New England, after a few years of heavy decline due to West Nile Virus. They are around the yard most days. This fellow, however is in Seattle, on my first evening there, when I made a short visit to a park near the hotel. Crows were working the lawns and the tide-line with equal vigor…looking, in crow fashion, for whatever they could get.
They are really a handsome bird…not flashy or colorful…and certainly not cute the way some warblers and sparrows are…but solidly handsome. This is at the full 1200mm optical reach of my new Canon SX50HS, and is actually the very first bird shot I took with it. Low light in the shade of the trees (and the darkness of the subject) pushed the ISO to 800. I am actually quite pleased with the results. The jury is still very much out on the camera as a whole. The SX40HS is a hard act to follow. But so far so good!
As above. f6.5 @ 1/100th @ ISO 800. Processed in Lightroom for intensity, clarity, and sharpness.
Hi Stephen,
I’m really interested in seeing your further impressions of the SX50. I’ve held off purchasing a new camera, but had planned on the SX40. Now along comes the SX50 to complicate things!
On paper, the SX50 looks better *except* for the slower lens. So I will be particularly anxious to hear how much that lens affects the real world shooting that you do.
We have so many around here, they had to fire off cannons to scare them off the courthouse! People couldn’t get to the doors, clean!