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Meadow Pipit

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Posted by Fran French on May 20, 2009 at 1:04 PM
Meadow Pipit
Hi all,

Bet you are all pleased it's not more hares :biggrin: This little one was very obliging and allowed me to take several frames. Am a little unsure about the comp though, is it too central?

40D, 300mm +1.4 t/c,ISO 500,f7.1,1/1000.

Fran :toast:
Posted by Craig Jones on May 20, 2009 at 1:15 PM
Very nice Fran, composition is bang on for me with the little turn of the head making the image :wink: :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Lewis Thomson on May 20, 2009 at 2:26 PM

Hi Fran,

Very nice shot, the position looks good to me. Great background!

Lewis.
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Posted by David Kjaer on May 20, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Hi Fran

The composition is fine - pose, detail BG and DOF are great!

David :toast:
Posted by jack chapman on May 20, 2009 at 2:59 PM
love the pose and colours
Posted by Ian Mason on May 20, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Composition looks fine to me. The background is certainly very clean. Usually it works well, but sometimes I think it can look just a little too stark. Maybe a more natural perch would have offset that effect.
Posted by Mark Davies on May 20, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Tidy image indeed .Comp works fine .Agree about the wire though.
Posted by PhilH on May 21, 2009 at 2:57 AM
Bird and perch are fine for me... thats how they often perch at this location, the green field behind always gives that great clean bg...

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Posted by Mark Wilson on May 21, 2009 at 11:39 AM
Looks good to me - great pose on the pipit!
Posted by Fran French on May 21, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Thanks everyone, and thanks Phil.

As Phil says this is a regular perch for these birds, and the field behind provides a great b/g. It is not possible to provide any other perch at this location, and therefore I had to be grateful and make the most of the opportunity at the time.

Fran :toast:
Posted by David Sewell on May 21, 2009 at 3:45 PM
It is exactly the sort of perch that these birds use. It is a nice, clean image and for me the composition works well.

David