Juvenile Eastern Bluebird - Female

[kenn threed]

Hi again all,

This is one of the sisters of the boybird shown in our first post (http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=50493):
http://kenn3d.smugmug.com/Nature/Birds-Blossoms-Butterflies-VOL/bluebird8085/717412214_dgPgm-XL.jpg
She is one of five girlbirds and has eleven brothers from the 3 nestings of our parent Blues this season.
We shoot them a lot, because we love them... and we hope you enjoy them too. But we're always trying to improve our photos of them, so any critiques or suggestions are appreciated. :)

Canon S3-IS + 1.7x TC (@734mm) : Manual Mode : ISO100 : F3.5 : 1/200 : handheld

Kenn & Temple
Backyard Birders in St.Louis, MO
http://kenn3d.smugmug.com (http://kenn3d.smugmug.com/)

[Harshad Barve]

beautiful image and species here , BG is killer and nice details
Can you tell me size of full grown bird ?
TFS

[Danny J Brown]

Hi Kenn: Looks like you quickly mastered the technique of optimizing these little 200kb files as I compare this bluebird image to your first. Great shot! The composition, color and bokeh are all nice here. Bluebirds sure have a large eye, don't they? By the way, I live right down the road from you on a small farm in Union, MO. We have a lot of bluebirds here as well. You might enjoy the attached link I posted in Friends and Family.

http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=49321

[kenn threed]

Thanks for your encouraging comments Harshad,

Adult Eastern Bluebirds are: Length 18cm (7 in), Wingspan 33cm (13 in).
These juvies are @6 months old and fully grown. They attain their full size quite soon after fledging.

Kenn

[Harshad Barve]

Thanks for your encouraging comments Harshad,

Adult Eastern Bluebirds are: Length 18cm (7 in), Wingspan 33cm (13 in).
These juvies are @6 months old and fully grown. They attain their full size quite soon after fledging.

Kenn

Thanks Kenn , I love shooting under 15 cms so just asked you for info

[kenn threed]

Hi Danny,

That's a very sweet group you captured there! We've counted as many as 17 in the yard at once here, but the most we've ever captured in a single frame was 9 ... (that was also not a gallery shot btw) :)
We have other friends near Union too btw, perhaps you could show us how it's done with the bigger guns somewhen.

Thanks also for your comments, very much appreciated.

Kenn

[James Salywoda]

Nice pose and details I would consider maybe taking some off the top and adding more canvas to the left that bg color is very complimenting.

[kenn threed]

Nice pose and details I would consider maybe taking some off the top and adding more canvas to the left that bg color is very complimenting.
Thanks for your comments and suggestion James,

I tend to fall into the 10x8, 8x10, 5x7, 16x9 std sizes crop rut... but I can envision what you're saying and will try it to see. I believe there was a bit of canvas remaining on the left before my crop. It would probably be good for us to try some free aspect ratios.

greatly appreciated,

Kenn