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Tree Sparrow Study

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Posted by keith mitchell on October 22, 2008 at 3:42 PM
Tree Sparrow Study
Nikon.
1/500 sec
@f8
iso800.
Big fan of Tree Sparrows can't get enough of them.
Posted by John Robinson on October 22, 2008 at 4:02 PM
Hi Kieth.
Nice job in very harsh light by the look of it.
The white blobs and reflections are very eye catching and could do with toning down a bit I reckon. Especially the two larger ones behind the birds head.
A shot like this is always going to be tricky with the subject in shadow and the background in sunlight.
Some "shadow lifting or fill flash " software tweaking could help.
Cheers
John
Posted by David Taylor on October 22, 2008 at 4:45 PM
Great handling of light. I like the way the birds breast feathers pick up the light reflecting off the water.

:toast: :toast: :jump:
Posted by Greg Hitchcock on October 22, 2008 at 5:14 PM
Like the light in this a lot, and the light reflection as David said. I also agree with Tony, however, that the bright spots in the background could do with darkening.

Greg
Posted by Ian Macdermott on October 22, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Nice shot all nits already covered. :smile:



Ian
Posted by Chris Jones on October 23, 2008 at 3:32 AM
Nice shot, same comments as above, but look at that water, very good.

Regards Chris
Posted by keith mitchell on October 23, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Thanks for looking and your comments.

Cheers Mitch.
Posted by Colin Jakes on October 24, 2008 at 8:27 AM
At first I thought the patchy lighting, particularly the bill being in shadow detracted from the shot, but actually, the more I revisit it, the more I like it just as it is, it has a nice quiet calm feel to it.

Colin