While doing a marsh bird survey this past weekend I got distracted by some nesting Saltmarsh Sparrows. I counted at least 11 birds, some singing quite a bit. Although I had my camera with me for documentation purposes and wasn't really out looking for good photos, I couldn't help but taking some time to get a few good frames of these birds.
Chatham, Massachusetts - July 15, 2012
Canon EOS 7D
Canon EF 100-400 mm F/4.5-5.6 L IS
Early morning
1/1600
400 mmm
ISO 400
Focus point was manually moved up two points as the bird was too close for center point. 95+% of original frame.
Lovely light on this one Ryan, but the image looks soft on my monitor, the image has been scaled from 1,024px × 658px to 1,012px × 650px, I have noticed this on other images posted recently also.
I'm not really sure what's up with the image in the thread though. When I download the image to my computer (the exact one displayed in the thread), it looks absolutely perfect. When I look at it embedded in the thread, it looks SUPER SUPER soft (must be the way Joe Murphy is seeing it too). This does not appear to be the case for the rest of you though. When I look at it on my work computer, it looks fine. Very odd!