WrenChick-concrete
Fledged from an urban garage, this Wren chick looks a little stunned by bright sunshine & concrete environment. So made safety of a nearby hedge with parent...
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Fledged from an urban garage, this Wren chick looks a little stunned by bright sunshine & concrete environment. So made safety of a nearby hedge with parents.
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Jan, 2017Views
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This image was capture on the concrete apron in front of my garage and is surrounded by hard landscaping of walls, tarmac, concrete fence and solid gates. A very harsh environment for the chick especially as the garage interior was quite dark where the Wren parents raised this youngster. The garage door had been open all morning and there seemed to be a lot of activity around the nest and door, so I avoided going to the garage so as not to disturb the birds. I think the parents had got used to me as they didn't bother when I was around, however I definitely did not want to create any impression on the chicks. I had my camera to hand in the house hoping to get images of the fledglings & parents when they got round the back to the garden. This chick was the 1st out and flew straight into the middle of the concrete apron, it seemed quite stunned by the daylight and surroundings. I crept out of the house and crawled on all fours to take this image. After a short while it responded to the parents calling and hopped off towards the garden & safety of a hedge.Time
Late morning as the sun was shining more or less above the chickLighting
Very harsh sun, so no real colour detail. Which is why I also did a Black&White version of this imageEquipment
Canon 50D & 100-400mm L zoom lens, no tripod - hand held resting on the groundInspiration
The challenge of capturing a fledgling of one of the UK's smallest birdsEditing
Always shoot RAW and use the standard DxO Optics Pro results to export to Lightroom as a Tiff check for any dust marks then read into Photoshop for JPG output.In my camera bag
Always have Canon 50D & Sigma 18-300mm f3.5-6.3 Macro OS HSM Contemporary Lens in my everyday bagFeedback
Alway be prepared to capture an image at a moments notice, have your camera fully charged with clean memory & optics, settings for wildlife are usually aperture priority mode for me with auto ISO. This means I can usually concentrate on getting the image straight away.
