Amongst the Reeds

[William Dickson]

Canon 7D Mk2
f/4 500mm with 1x4iii
f/7.1
1/1250
ISO 800

I captured this Reed Bunting at the weekend. Thought I would try something different. Not sure if 'it works' though.

Thanks for having a look

Will

[John Robinson]

Yes it does work! Love it-
my kind of shot. Really nice pic(Wall hanger!)
May not suit everyone but but it does me.
John

[Jonathan Ashton]

Will, it nearly works for me, a couple of reservations - is it a large crop - there doesn't appear to be too much detail in the plumage and the tail is obscured by a couple of stems. I know it is dead easy for me to criticise sat here at home but had the tail not been obscured the image would have been a lot stronger.

[William Dickson]

Cheers guys, appreciated.

Sharpened the bird a wee bit

[David Cowling]

Not easy to get a clear shot of these little birds among the reeds but you almost did it William, just one reed stem spoiling it. Nice shot of the bird in it's environment.

[Karl Egressy]

Nice habitat shot, William.

[arash_hazeghi]

The habitat is nice but I agree the bird is quite soft and lacking in detail, even after sharpening, it's not a keeper unfortunately.

As I have mentioned before, you cannot really "fix" a soft/hazy RAW file with sharpening...

TFS

[David Salem]

I have to agree about the sharpening. Didn't help much. I must say that it is not only obvious, but blatantly obvious when you post a shot from your 7D as opposed to your 5d. TFS