garden green finch

[Geoff Warnock]

These littles fellows like to come down to my peanut feeder on a daily basis, although they're more shy than my other visitors. A makeshift garden hide that was enough for the other birds still seemed to scare these guys off, so I tried some remote camera work.

Nikon D90
Sigma 120-400
1/400th
f11 (aiming for a little extra DOF since I manually prefocussed on the perch)
iso800
radio-remote from inside my house

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5062/5672372770_ea4c82b8f9_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53654547@N02/5672372770/)

I added some canvas on the right to balance the composition. I wasn't totally happy with sharpness in the original but I think it's come up ok for web presentation. All comments welcome!

Geoff

[jack williamson]

Geoff, I think the sharpness and color of the bird looks good but I think I would crop from the left

to the shadow on the perch. Nice yellows.

Jack

[Kerry Perkins]

Hi Geoff, nice work with the remote setup and I'm sure you got some other good captures! The harsh light here makes for a contrasty image, but you handled the exposure well under the circumstances. I agree that the perch is just too much of the image. I feel that it takes the eye away from the bird and I would crop as Jack suggests.

[Geoff Warnock]

thank you both, I will admit that I thought about cropping the loop of perch off from the left, but ended up leaving it in for two reasons - avoiding too large a crop in case IQ suffered, and because I chose the perch to be somewhat interesting. I can see that it could be distracting too though.