Meadow Bunting

[John Wright]

http://www.wrightphotography.com.au/images/meadow-bunting-bpn-4669-1.jpg

Not much to say about this one - I just liked the light and pose. C&C most welcome!

Oops - forgot to mention the details:

Canon EOS 7D, EF300mm f/2.8L IS USM + 1.4x TC

1/100 sec at f/4.0; ISO 100; cropped approx. 50%

[Juan Aragonés]

I like the composition and soft light and those out of focus light stripes adds information about the habitat and works in my opinion. Another round of USM for web presentaion would be great. In this case I would go for more deep of field with a higher ISO to get more part of the perch in focus :)

[John Wright]

Thanks, Juan - I see what you mean...f/5.6? I am learning a lot from the comments from this forum - thanks very much!

[Juan Aragonés]

Yeah, even f8. The 300 2,8+1,4TC is a deadly combination and you can get very good results in terms of sharpnes and image quality even wide open but wide open on a close subject you are going to have a narrow deep of field. With that combo and a 7D I would go, without hesitation, down to f8 and a a higher ISO :)

[John Wright]

Thanks Juan!

[John Wright]

I'm just looking at another photo from the same outing - I guess what I need to be concerned about is more the angle of the perch. It seems like the image I posted had the perch angling diagonally away, whereas this shot seems to have everything on the same plane, so f/4 works:

http://www.wrightphotography.com.au/images/meadow-bunting-bpn-1.jpg

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I really like the perch, good composition and sharpness, too. The whites look a bit blueish, you could try to increase the color temperature to fix this.

[John Wright]

Thanks Axel - you are right! I went back into LR2 and bumped it up a bit. The photo looks a lot warmer now. :)