Reed bunting on goarse

Really liking my new lens, it produces such a brilliant background blur

EOS 30D, Sigma 120-400, ISO 400, SS 1/500 @F/8

comments wellcome

Hi Joe,

Love the background colours, looks like you had some nice light, the birds pose is great too.

A couple of large dust spots middle left of the frame. A crop to portrait would improve the image in my view.

Lewis.

I would echo the comments made by Lewis and would suggest an alternative crop would be to remove some from the right. Otherwise a nice image.

Eric

Nice one, if this is the full frame then you have lots of cropping options which is what picture editors like....

I'd go along with Eric's suggestion of cropping from the right. As Phil states, the picture as it is, offers a picture editor plenty of options but for the purpose of the forum I think I would like to see the crop as a final image as envisaged by the photographer. Nicely isolated bird.
Robert

I like this a lot! The background is great imho - the gateaux effect really suits the subject. I'm in two minds about the crop suggestions - I really like the sweep of background and the way the bird becomes part of that, rather than the cropping-to-make-subject-prominent option. Whatever - a really nice portrayal of the bunting.

Right... dust spot removed, croped out some of the right hand side and in landscape as i didnt think it worked as a portrait

see http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3591/3363562334_3755a47e34_o.jpg (i can only post a photo every three days )