Posted by Daniel Loomis on January 30, 2010 at 6:06 PM
With weather so uncooperative I've been reacquainting myself with my venerable old EF100-400mm telephoto in the backyard. Cardinals are the low-hanging fruit these days, but can still reward the patient photographer with an interesting pose.
I cropped the image from horizontal to vertical to improve the composition; I then cloned out a few twigs that detracted from the scene.
40D
100-400@400
f/6.3
1/50s
ISO 400
natural light - overcast
Another fine shot, Daniel. If it were mine, I would consider cropping out the OOF branches at the bottom of the image but that is a minor nit. Great work!!
Posted by Randy Wilson on February 2, 2010 at 8:41 PM
Beautiful portrait, great pose, good detail, great out of focus and clean background. There are several twigs that end exactly behind the lower horizontal branch, which seems unnatural. So it might be best to clone or crop them out as well.
Posted by Larry Daniel on February 4, 2010 at 12:14 AM
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5 repliesI cropped the image from horizontal to vertical to improve the composition; I then cloned out a few twigs that detracted from the scene.
40D
100-400@400
f/6.3
1/50s
ISO 400
natural light - overcast