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Starling Portrait (+ repost)

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Posted by Alan Bryant on May 26, 2007 at 6:17 PM
Starling Portrait (+ repost)
The VERY common, yet beautifal Starling.

20D
500f4
ISO 400
1/250 @ f4

C & C welcome

Thank you for looking :smile:
Posted by David Kjaer on May 27, 2007 at 3:42 AM
Hi Alan

Nicely composed, good colours with a great BG - very nice!

David :toast:
Posted by Andy Shepherd on May 27, 2007 at 5:00 AM
Hi Alan,
This is a very nice shot of a much overlooked bird , when captured in the right light the colours of the Starling are fantastic , good comp and a lovely BG.

Kind regards
Andy... :smile:
Posted by Paula Graham on May 27, 2007 at 6:17 AM
Very pleasing.
Posted by John Chapman on May 27, 2007 at 6:26 AM
Nice portrait Alan. :toast:
John
Aberdeen
Posted by Alan Bryant on May 27, 2007 at 7:54 AM
Thank you for your comments :toast:

Over in Avian, Gary Gulash suggested to crop some off the top and off the right hand side to bring the starling more into the frame.Well he's right it looks better :cool: (what do you think ?).
Posted by Justin on May 27, 2007 at 12:14 PM
Hi Alan,
Very fine close-up portrait with the composition in the re-post working the best out of the two,IMO :toast:
Posted by Andy Astbury on May 27, 2007 at 12:46 PM
Alan I thought the first post was great - the repost just has that extra edge comp-wise - very nicely exected :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Barrie Courtenay on May 27, 2007 at 4:29 PM
Yes Alan,nice looking starling,prefer the repost :toast: