Highland Cow

Highland Cow (Canon EOS 500D 229 mm, 1/2500 sec at f/5.6, ISO 400)

I went out for a quick recce for the upcoming croft bird survey today so I took my Canon EOS 500D (cropped ASP-C sensor) and my Sigma 150-500 mm zoom lens which with the cropped sensor actually produces the equivalent of an 800 mm lens on a full frame camera.  I hoped to get at least one shot of a bird somewhere, but despite seeing a Golden Plover (pretty unusual for us), a Yellowhammer chasing off a Mistle Thrush and a few Goldfinch not much was doing so I had to settle for a highland cow.

This shot was taken in good light with a wide aperture to blur the background but I thought the background was a bit boring so I tried messing with the saturation levels of the various colours in Lightroom.  The result is a pretty much B&W background with the cow highlighted in colour - what do you think?  I think it is quite cool.