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Grumpy Wren

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Posted by Ian Macdermott on July 8, 2008 at 6:40 AM
Found this little chap when I was after Dippers the other week, he kept popping into the wall and seemed to be none too happy I was there. :smile:

NIKON D300
Focal Length: 500.0mm
Aperture: f/5.6
Exposure Bias: -0.33
Exposure Mode: Manual
ISO Equiv.: 500
Exposure Time: 0.0025 s (1/400)


any comment welcome

Thanks for looking :toast:

Posted by Matt Cole on July 8, 2008 at 7:01 AM
a lovely portrait and a nice perch. Never easy as they don't hang around for long. Some may prefer the background to be cleaner but I like the natural feel to it.

Matt
Posted by Andy Shepherd on July 8, 2008 at 7:10 AM


Very nice Ian , like the perch and the expression , looks like a young'un so maybe he was waiting to be fed , i'm like that sometimes :biggrin:

Andy... :smile:
Posted by Andy Astbury on July 8, 2008 at 9:29 AM
Well I would have loved to see this with a cleaner BG, but at f5.6 you got about as clean as you could get Ian - very nice capture :wavey:

Personally I'd crop some off the top and bottom and then lose most of the nettle on the right in order to keep the aspect ratio - that's just my thoughts :wink:
Posted by John Robinson on July 8, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Looks OK to me.
JR
Posted by Magnus Hird on July 8, 2008 at 3:10 PM
Nice shot and the perch is a welcome difference from the usual. Maybe he was unhappy you'd encroached into his territory? :wink:
Posted by Ian Macdermott on July 8, 2008 at 6:32 PM
Thanks for the replies,

I suspect I was somewhere near his nest which accounts for the expression :smile:


Ian