Male Northern Cardinal (Cardinal Rouge). Please view in the larger format.

Male Northern Cardinal (Cardinal Rouge)

Vibrant color and detail.

Wonderful image, Gaetan. Super detail and great bg.

Great composition and good use of lighting.

He is beautiful shown, the direction how he graps to the branch. And I like the generous background.

Extremadamente bella Gaetan,,,, pero no tengo mas puntacion,,, un cordial saludo.

Very Good Picture Gaetan. Even I cannot get a picture of these Guys as there are not very many here where I am, but the one that does show up once every two weeks or so is very shy on top of it. ;o) Take care and have fun with your new lens. :o)

 

DK.

Beautiful colors and composition! Very detailed!

Very nice!

I think you have joined the ranks of those of us hooked on bird photography! Good job, Gaetan. A little more space at the bottom would have been good, but sometimes hard to accomplish.

Gaetan, I understand you have a new Lens? 400 mm how do you like it?

 

Very nice birds shots you have, that one is my favorite .Pnina

In Quebec city area, the Cardinal is generally a rare sighting.

 

 

Yes the Canon 400mm f/5.6 is a new lens that I have now. This is a great lens. It performs better that what I expected. I read a lot of infos on the internet to make this choice. I was looking for the 300mm f/4.0; but I think that I made the good choice with this 400mm prime lens. I have ordered a Tamron 1.4X TC because I will be able to take autofocus picture when the lighting is bright.

Thank you for your comment.

In seeing all these beautiful shots, I can only assume that you live in an aviary. :o) Truly love this one. My favorite bird.

It take a lot of patience to take that kind of photo. Also the cardinals was not present in my region say 10 years ago. Now it is not an unusual sight, they can also be seen in winter.

 

...The colours, the contrast, the intersecting diagonals, the bokeh. The blue sky really adds lovely contrast to the cardinal. My congratulations. Sincerely, Kelvin.