House finch + REPO

Gallery: AvianPosted February 27, 201498 views4 comments

I liked the position this finch was in which gave me a different view than I usually get. The clean sky was nice. Avoided the twigs as much as possible, but left these as they seem to frame the finch.

Canon PS SX50
1/500 @ F-8 ISO200
Canon 4.3-215 @ 215m
HH

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Rick Cloran on February 27, 2014 at 9:11 PM

I like the pose and the detail looks good. I'm getting the sense of a light cyan cast that would be easily corrected. I also have a real itch to pull out the clone tool and make some twigs disappear. He's too cute and should have the stage to himself.

Registered on April 6, 2004, 119 Posts, 1989 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on February 27, 2014 at 10:08 PM

Nice detail in the finch, John. For my taste the branch on the left is a bit overpowering.

Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on February 28, 2014 at 10:58 AM

I have cloned out most of the twigs, and changed the composition to vertical. On the new version the shadow cast by the twig on the right side of the finches face causes a small problem. Not sure how to correct it. Thanks for your comments.

Registered on September 12, 2009, 2120 Posts, 6455 Comments

Comment posted by Keith Bauer on March 1, 2014 at 9:49 AM

Hi John:

On your repost, It's not the twig casting a shadow, it's the cloning that overlapped into the birds face. Here's a version cropped to a tighter horizontal and the branch removed.

Registered on November 20, 2003, 458 Posts, 4836 Comments