Its great to get an image of a species that you have been trying for for ages.... this image is fine to hold on file till you get something better.... then consign this to the bin.
It appears to be a very large crop which is doing you no favours, the bird is in fact soft and showing lots of sharpening artifacts and the foliage in front detracts somewhat.... If you have a spot where they are visiting regularly it should be easy to set things up to get the shot you are after...
Hi Jeff , a better effort all around .As Phil says there appears to be a sharpening halo occuring in your images , in the second noticable at the breast .
A niger seed feeder .... these are suckers for the stuff .Put some perches near and you'll nail a few.
The 2nd image is much better than the first, I would get a feeder set up and make sure that you position it with the sun behind you and only shoot when the conditions are at their best-i.e early and late
Keep on persevering and you will get what you want.
David
Posted by Simon Litten on May 26, 2010 at 11:24 AM
Critique could be more constructive if you state whether the images are cropped or not and by how much. As presented, they look like one to one pixel crops - is this the case?
Glad you got your shot but feel that with the 'pro spec' equipment you're using you should be achieving a more 'professional' image.
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10 repliescanon 1d3
focal length 400mm
1/800, f10, iso 640
jeff acreman
Its great to get an image of a species that you have been trying for for ages.... this image is fine to hold on file till you get something better.... then consign this to the bin.
It appears to be a very large crop which is doing you no favours, the bird is in fact soft and showing lots of sharpening artifacts and the foliage in front detracts somewhat.... If you have a spot where they are visiting regularly it should be easy to set things up to get the shot you are after...
A niger seed feeder .... these are suckers for the stuff .Put some perches near and you'll nail a few.
Dave
Brett
Sometimes not an easy bird to get to perch where you want them to, but keep trying and you will get the shots you are after.
Shaun
David
Glad you got your shot but feel that with the 'pro spec' equipment you're using you should be achieving a more 'professional' image.
Simon
Hi Jeff,
I agree with all of the above, looking forward to seeing more of these from you using the advice given.
Cheers,
Lewis.