Posted by Bob Hastie on February 8, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Hi all
Looked out the window the other day to see 3 of these chaps feeding with the chaffinches.
They only stayed for an hour or so and haven't been back since.
Canon 30D. 500 f4 + Kenko 1.4x, f5.6, 1/400, ISO100, beanbag
Taken from bedroom window with driving snow coming straight at me.
Processed on new monitor so any comments re appearance gratefully recieved.
Colours look good to me. Its a good shot. Think about cropping off the rhs of frame (to squarish) to leave the bird and branch. I think this is better than the reverse - cropping off the branch to leave just a bird in the snow.
Dave
Posted by Brian Phipps on February 9, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Cracking Yellow Hammer! I`d be happy with this uncropped,
I like the large amount of snow, gives it scale, the small section of branch exposed reminds you of whats its perched upon.
Discussion
5 repliesLooked out the window the other day to see 3 of these chaps feeding with the chaffinches.
They only stayed for an hour or so and haven't been back since.
Canon 30D. 500 f4 + Kenko 1.4x, f5.6, 1/400, ISO100, beanbag
Taken from bedroom window with driving snow coming straight at me.
Processed on new monitor so any comments re appearance gratefully recieved.
Bob
Dave
Nice one, perhaps a catchlight would have been nice....
Drew
I like the large amount of snow, gives it scale, the small section of branch exposed reminds you of whats its perched upon.