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Wood Warbler

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Posted by Paul Gibbs on May 12, 2007 at 6:39 PM
D200, Sigma 500mm f4.5 ISO320 1/200sec, 4x3 Vertical crop.

From the Elan Valley trip :toast:

Nice to meet everyone!

Hope everyone got home safely.
Posted by Andy Astbury on May 13, 2007 at 2:03 AM
Nice comp Paul, good strong line thru the bird to the top right corner :toast: :toast:

Only change I would make would be to clone out that black area at the top.

Strong image :wavey:
Posted by Clive_S on May 13, 2007 at 4:26 AM
Lovely image. There is quite a lot of dead space on the right and a tighter crop would also look good though I can see why you've gone with this one to keep the perch.What a striking pose. :toast:
Posted by Chris Lloyd on May 13, 2007 at 5:01 AM
Very striking comp, and a very striking bird too! Great work!

Regards Chris
www.c-m-l.com :toast:
Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on May 13, 2007 at 5:09 AM
Hi Paul very nice .

Phillip.
:toast: :toast: :toast: :wavey: :smile:
Posted by Gary Beers on May 13, 2007 at 5:09 AM
Great to meet you yesterday - this is a very nice reminder of our tuneful friend!
Posted by Justin on May 13, 2007 at 5:21 AM
Can almost hear the song from here :wink:
Posted by kevin Treadwell on May 13, 2007 at 5:37 AM
Hi Paul

Wonderfull shot Paul love the little guy's pose. Nice to meet you yesterday. Have fun sitting infront of the PC today.

Regards
Kevin
Posted by Graeme Lee on May 13, 2007 at 6:52 AM
Nice Paul. Great pose captured. A tighter crop wqould be my preference but i too can see why you opted for this. Would get rid of the black at the top :toast:
Posted by Tim Munsey on May 13, 2007 at 10:33 AM
What a pretty bird, really nice shot. I'm with the tall thin pano thinkers for this one.

:toast:

Tim
Posted by Paul Thomas on May 13, 2007 at 2:03 PM
Super shot Paul.

:toast:

Paul
Posted by Gavin Law on May 13, 2007 at 3:51 PM
The crop works really well on this.

Not sure why I didn't point my camera in it's direction!!

Gavin
Posted by Ross Andrews on May 14, 2007 at 8:42 AM
Lovely image :smile: I hadn't got the focal length, so enjoyed the display instead - that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

Ross
Posted by Paul Gibbs on May 14, 2007 at 9:56 AM
You should of followed me after lunch, which is when i took this one. I was sat waiting for the wren to show its self again and the Wood warbler just refused to go away. I must have 80 shots of it doing various things.

As for the crop, i'm unsure. I will try a 3x2 and 16x9 later but i prefered the proportions of this. Also the black OOF branch, i didnt notice it when i was working on the image (it was rather late by then...)

Glad people like it :smile:
Posted by kevin Treadwell on May 14, 2007 at 10:35 AM
Only 80 shots man! what were you doing for the other 3 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!

regrads
Kevin :jump:
Posted by Paul Gibbs on May 14, 2007 at 12:14 PM
Getting shots of this.

http://images.fotopic.net/dl-v2/size=30/quality=90/ynjmoa.jpg

I dont know wha it is but i like this image.