my contribution to world sparrow day.

[Stuart Edwards]

not as nice as what you guys have been posting but i finally got the background the way i want it

70d 100-400@400mm f9.5 1/350 iso 800
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3950/15056977163_f5c778f282_k.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/oWwWJx)male house sparrow (https://flic.kr/p/oWwWJx) by sedwards679 (https://www.flickr.com/people/94381946@N07/), on Flickr

[Randy Stout]

Stuart:

Good low shooting angle, soft bg as you mentioned, seed in mouth a plus.

Good job adjusting f/stop to maximize the dof. Enough of the bird is in focus to be effective.

On my monitor, I wish the bird was slightly brighter in relationship to the background.

Cheers

Randy

[Doug Brown]

Really like the BG, but as Randy pointed out, the bird is relatively dark; this is a situation where fill flash would help greatly. What exactly did you mean when you said that you finally got the BG the way you wanted it?

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you so much for your contribution on the World Sparrow Day. Magnificent image of handsome bird.
Rest has been mentioned above.

Regards,
Satish.

[Stuart Edwards]

Tthanks guys . this shot was taken late october of last year and i just got a new monitor this week. i aslo see it as quite dark on my new screen but i cant find the original raw image to try and correct it.
What i meant about the background Doug ,is that i finally got it far enough from the subject to to blur it out nicely.