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female reed bunting

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Posted by Mike Smith on April 29, 2007 at 2:24 PM
female reed bunting
One from this morning at our local nature reserve, struggled to get any clean shots through the reedbed

Canon 1 DSII, 500 F4.5 plus 1.4 tc iso 200, 1/60 at F6.7, 550EX fill in flash at -1.5 slight crop and cloned out the flash catch light as it was too central in the eye
Posted by Andy Astbury on April 30, 2007 at 3:38 AM
Hi Mike - looks a bit dark and low in contrast so I took the liberty of tweeking it a bit - shadow/highlight adjust, midtone contrast +19........if you don't like it I'll delete it straight away :wavey:

Pity about the OoF reed but what can you do :toast:

Regards

Andy
Posted by Mike Smith on April 30, 2007 at 3:51 AM
Yes was in a rush last night and processed this on my laptop whilst making sunday dinner, always a bad idea :rolleyes:
Posted by Clive_S on April 30, 2007 at 11:09 AM
Extremely nice pose and composition Mike.

Somewhere between those two posts for my taste.
Posted by Paula Graham on April 30, 2007 at 1:16 PM
Very nice shot, I like the re-post whilst viewing on my laptop though.
Posted by Rene de Heer on April 30, 2007 at 4:08 PM
Second one is better Mike! Nice one.
Rene de Heer