Female Stonechat

Discussion

4 replies

Posted by SteveHL on June 10, 2006 at 10:11 AM

SD10, Sigma 500mm, F5.6, 1/800, ISO100, CS@ Crop 10%, levels & sharpen.
Comments welcome.
Regds
SteveHL

Posted by David J Slater on June 10, 2006 at 10:34 AM

Hi Steve. Not a bad effort with as good a position in the frame as I bet you could get before it flew off - little blighters. Twigs not the best but ok. Good catchlight in the eye and nice blue sky. Looks soft focused but I notice you post at relatively low resolution. Why not post at higher res? Even your webbie images are higher resolution!
PS Aren't England boring?

Dave
Forest of Dean, UK

Posted by David Kjaer on June 10, 2006 at 2:33 PM

Hi Steve

I like the overall image but feel you could improve it by cropping a little from the top and brightening the bird just a little!

David

Posted by John Varley on June 10, 2006 at 6:20 PM

Very nice stonechat Steve - which I think would look much better with the midtones lightened a bit.

John

Posted by Justin on June 11, 2006 at 7:58 AM

A nice uncluttered image of a very appealing bird.Perhaps just a slight lightening of the bird for me too and a little less space above (for web presentation) although I bet this composition works a treat for a magazine front cover.
A nice relaxed pose and the slight head turn towards the camera works very well.