Early morning, among the greens with my favorite common bird
Hello folks, I was lurking this morning among the greens and yellows. I took this picture with the Canon 7D and 70-300L at 300mm. iso800, 1/320, 5.6. This is about 85% of the original capture. I will welcome your words! Many thanks for looking at this picture! O prithee, do not malign the ubiquitous but still estimable house sparrow!
I can visualize you down in the dirt searching through the small plants to get a shot of this bird. Lovely framing for your bird. Makes me think that finding all birds where they are hiding is more precious than the ones out in the open. I might extend the green of the bird frame to the upper right had corner to give a feeling that your opening in the greenery is the only way to see the bird.
This is quite a unique capture, Jack, and a pleasing one. I like the "window" you have created, and the pose of the sparrow really works. The green sets off the bird nicely, and I find all the details on the leaf pleasing. You did a good job executing your vision here.
Thanks for your comments and compliments Laurie and Marina. First step: find and photograph hiding house sparrows. Second step: find and photograph hiding warblers. No mean feat...
Super unique and artistic, Jack. I really like your vision. I keep playing with a browser scroll and think that a bit off the top improves the comp, and I wonder about taking just a hint of saturation out of the greens.
Hi Jack, what we expect from you - always something different, and in this, well done for OOTB thinking. Very well framed, and all I would like to add is to smooth off the edge of leaf directly above the head, and some NR around the sparrow.
Nicely nestled in that cup of leaves, or so it seems! Sharp, well exposed. I'm with Grace in regards to crop (and is that a clone mark up there?), and there is a bit of a bluish cast on the plumage that could be negated...in this case by desaturating the blue channel in PS. Amazingly the HA works for me here...
Daniel, indeed the head angle does work here. Why the amazement? No, that's no clone mark, no cloning was done here...it's just some funny-looking texture, I guess...I agree that a bit off the top would help out...
Ah, I see. I have a shot or two that have more traditionally "good" head angles, but this one worked the best of all. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed hiding in the bushes like a birdcreep...I'm not sure if that's what certain whitecoat types would call an "indicator trait" or "warning sign" but I don't put much stock in that sort of thing, no
Early morning, among the greens with my favorite common bird
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