Eastern Spinebill

Gallery: AvianPosted January 21, 2012182 views14 comments

A young Eastern Spinebill photographed feeding on Star-leaved Grevillea at Canberra Botanic Gardens, Australia.

Canon 7D, EF500 f/4 handheld, ISO 400, f/4, 1/1600. Slight crop for composition.

Comments

14 comments

Comment posted by Eirini Pajak on January 21, 2012 at 7:02 AM

Neat shot! The lighting is really cool! The only thing I wonder is if the reds in the flowers are slightly over saturated/blown out. Other than that, beautiful image!

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Comment posted by Hussain Nalwala on January 21, 2012 at 7:16 AM

Good composition... great neat shot.

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Comment posted by Tonia Graves on January 21, 2012 at 8:28 AM

Looks like you had some harsh lighting to deal with but you handled it well. Compositionally I may have placed the bird a little more left in the frame so that it isn't so centered.

Registered on October 29, 2011, 92 Posts, 1035 Comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on January 21, 2012 at 8:39 AM

Simon, a very good image of the bird feeding. I like the colors, detail and sharpness you have in this photo. I would suggest cloning out the OOF foliage below the bird, as I do find it a bit distracting. Thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Cristina Strudthof on January 21, 2012 at 9:17 AM

I like the balance of this photo and the colors are wonderful. The RHS looks brighter compared to the left, mostly because of color differences I'm guessing, but I'm not sure I would do anything to it to darken it up.

Very nice work.

Registered on January 14, 2011, 53 Posts, 363 Comments

Comment posted by Barbara Graham on January 21, 2012 at 10:10 AM

Simon, I really like this image. I like your composition, the perch, the background, the colors, and I like the way it turned out as far as the light (if it was harsh, and I can't really tell, you did a good job with it).

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Comment posted by Ron Dudley on January 21, 2012 at 11:03 AM

Interesting behavior and nice setting. I also enjoy the spider web and possibly the spider itself at lower right part of the perch. Agree that some of the reds seem a little too saturated though I'm sure those flowers are very bright naturally. I enjoy seeing s shot like this that's apparently not set up.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on January 21, 2012 at 2:54 PM

Simon, a wonderful sharp image. The reds aare a bit oversaturated, I think. Also, a small cro on the LHS would make for a better comp and remove the one large distracting red OOF.

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Comment posted by Luca Mussato on January 21, 2012 at 3:26 PM

good in small great in large. I copy the comment about the red flowers.

Luca

Registered on November 14, 2006, 118 Posts, 855 Comments

Comment posted by Jaymes Dempsey on January 21, 2012 at 5:49 PM

Excellent detail, and I like the smooth bg and the pose of the bird. Perhaps the flowers are slightly oversaturated?
Jaymes

Registered on June 28, 2010, 47 Posts, 590 Comments

Comment posted by Charlie VanTassel on January 21, 2012 at 8:39 PM

I agree. This shot is great. I like the way that the subject is focused on the flower. Great lighting too.