What on earth are you doing?

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Posted by eric weight on June 1, 2009 at 4:50 PM

I got down the farm early on saturday morning intending to watch an area where the partridges take their dust baths, but as Andy will confirm, I am a hopeless fidget and I could not get myself sorted out. The tripod was being particularly difficult and I was pratting about for ages trying to get it just right, and then I noticed a movement out of the corner of my eye. This little fellow had never seen anything like it and I managed a couple of shots before he wandered off to tell the rest of the family about the plonker hiding by the gate. The light was still a bit dull and his coat was more grey than the adult's, so I resisted the urge to saturate the colours at all.

40D; 500/f4.5
iso 400; 1/20; f4.5
This is a little bit more than 60% of the original. He must have been smaller than I first thought because I later got a shot of an adult from further away which filled the frame pretty well. I'll post that one tomorrow.

C&C very welcome, but I really only posted it because he was so cute.

Eric

Posted by Colin Crowdey on June 1, 2009 at 4:55 PM

I like this Eric, nice pose looking right at you - I might if it were mine chop an inch of the bottom as the OOF dirt does not add to the overall composition. Well seen and captured

cheers

Colin

Posted by Bertl Menegoni on June 1, 2009 at 5:01 PM

When you see his eyes and his ears you know he wants to explore the whole world in one day.
You captured it perfectly, Eric.