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Jay

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Posted by Robert Lawrence on February 8, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Jay
This bird flew in to my feeders yesterday and promptly flew straight back out! I was using a high iso at the time as lighting conditions were not good and I was trying to capture some long tailed tits so wanted every bit of speed I could manage.
10-300mm @ 100mm
exp 1/350 @f4 iso 640
Robert
Posted by Ray on February 8, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Very nice, I think you could have afforded to crop it more as a square, either that or as a vertical at say 150mm, but that’s just a personal thing.

An excellent shot, everything is right on the button. Nice one.
Posted by Dawn Monrose on February 8, 2009 at 12:58 PM
Nice, the grain is well controlled for the ISO. Nice pose and great eye contact. Looks like you have some cropping potential, either vertical or square, as Ray suggests. The composition here looks quite good to me too!

Nice work!
Posted by Ian Mason on February 8, 2009 at 2:12 PM
I like the composition the way it is. I might tone down the vertical twig on the left as it catches my eye. Did you use noise reduction on the background? If so, it might be worth another round.
Posted by Major Gilbert on February 8, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Nice pose and like the comp, but would try and tone down the BG as it does show noise. :smile:

Major.
Posted by David J Slater on February 8, 2009 at 4:51 PM
You done well to get a pic of these shy birds. I think a square crop would be better to remove that bright twig over on the left.
Dave