White-throated Sparrow --? foreground removal
This White-throat posed briefly in a cedar bush at home recently. I thought the bird against the background looked OK, but should the part of the bush in front of the middle of the bird be removed, and if so how? It looks very complex and irregular for cloning.
D300, Nikon 80-400VR, handheld,
Shutter Speed (Exposure Time) = 1/250 second
Aperture = F8
Exposure Bias (EV) = 0/6 = 0
Metering Mode = spot (3)
Thanks,
Richard
Hi Richard,
Very nice capture, love the colors of your bird and it's habitat. Would have liked to have the bird in the clear and not be covered with the spruce, but thats ok...:D He is also a wee bit too centered in the frame...:)
Hi Richard
I would just remove the very part touching his head The other you can leave alone Wish the bird was all in the open but it works fine. You did a lot of sharpening to make it look the way it is. At the distance you were photographing there was not all that much dof I try avoiding branches right in front of the bird that could be some what in focus You want the bird to be the first thing
With other branches up front totally out of focus don't seem to be as bothersome. The eye goes right for the main object
At first glance it seems it is centered but actually it is not. There is lots of room to the right and the tail in close to the edge Bg is pleasing and does not look busy at all. The only thing detracting as framed are the sharply focused branches !!!!
btw for cloning them out it could be done It is just a complex undertaking. With my images I seldom work more than two minutes at most Only on a rare image would I do a ton of work and then can't use for much of anything !!!!!
Hi again, and thanks for the tips. Also, Alfred, thanks for posting your improved version. Actually, I cropped the original frame so that the bill was in the center and most of the bird was to the left. The only sharpening I did was to remove lens blur at amount 64%, radius 0.2, selectively on the bird, after re-sizing the cropped image for the web. It's nice to know that the experts don't feel that the branch in front of the body doesn't detract too much from the overall image.
Richard
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