House sparrow

Gallery: AvianPosted November 5, 2014129 views4 comments

Not an exciting species, but was a willing model. I was looking for a test subject as I continue to learn the ins and outs of a new camera. I was about 20 feet from the sparrow in the crabapple tree.
Feel this might be a bit over sharpened.

Canon PS SX60
1/500 @ F-8 ISO200
Canon 3.8-247 @ 247mm (1365 35mm eqv)
HH.

Taken about 11:00am CST

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by keith mitchell on November 6, 2014 at 3:04 PM

John the bird itself looks just fine on my monitor, the only thing that bugs me is the twig that nearly touches it's beak, but maybe your not bothered to much about that when testing your new camera.

Keith.

Registered on July 12, 2008, 127 Posts, 1735 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Sandor on November 6, 2014 at 8:55 PM

John: I'm always appreciative of photos of the little birds and this photo is no exception. You've captured nice color and detail. As Keith mentioned, the twig touching the beak should be considered for cloning. The same would be true of the oof twig coming out of the bird's chest and rear as well as the crabapple hanging right over the bird's head. Richard

Registered on January 12, 2014, 453 Posts, 1625 Comments

Comment posted by Lucy Aron on November 7, 2014 at 2:19 PM

This has great potential. Seems to need simplification so the bird stands out more from the background. If some of the twigs and berries could be removed I think it would help immensely.

Registered on February 25, 2011, 189 Posts, 1160 Comments

Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on November 8, 2014 at 1:57 AM

Please see my comments on your later post. I have the same reaction here. At the high end of zoom, the cameras just aren't that crisp.

Registered on August 28, 2006, 1240 Posts, 8506 Comments