The bluejays stop by right before the sun goes down to see if I've left any peanuts out for the squirrels. This guy came in the other night and was scoping out the snack situation right before the sun went down.
Canon 40D, Canon 70-200mm f/4L USM set at 200mm
ISO 500, f4 @ 1/160
Eval metering, AWB
Processed in CS3, camera raw (cropped and sharpened)
Hi Julie,
I like the little guy, you have great details and the colors are great.. but he is placed wrong in the frame. I cropped, and this is what I came up with...:cool: You should add more canvas to the left of the frame in order to give the bird more room to look into and add more on top too...:cool:
Hi Julie Do like seeing the bird on the corner, perfect placement. Sure wish it was turned around looking into the frame. Actually I would have liked it the camera was pointed more to the left so the bird would have moved to the right corner. Like these type very much !!
Do get some feed out there, I'm sure you will have birds on a consistent basis !!!
Thanks everyone! I do have food out - but the bluejays won't eat it - they want ONLY the peanuts and the squirrels tend to get there first. Maybe I should go back to taking squirrel photos again...hmm? ;)
Julie
The more I try to comment on other folks wonderful images the less competent I feel. I'll just plow ahead here. I like the bird and I like the pose, and the terrific tree perch. For me the part that detracts from the whole image is the tree in the bg to the right. I think there should be something in that space, but the tree that is there is wrong for some reason --- maybe it is too much in focus, needs to be more blurred, maybe. Somehow it seems like a completely separate image. I think Gus's crop is moving in the right direction.
It is a terrific image of the jay itself --- sharp, wonderful color and good detail.
Hi Julie. Nice shot. Lovely colours, detail etc. For me the tree to the right is the main problem, mainly I think because it is in the foreground. To me the bird seems to be looking more downwards than to its right and so I might try cropping to a portrait format, removing the OOF tree pretty much entirely, as Gus has done but retaining most or all of the lower part of the image. Does that make any sense?
Yes, I totallly understand. I liked the OOF tree and BG that flanked the bird - thought it pulled the focus to him - now I see its a bit distracting. Thanks for your help everyone!
Nothin wrong with sq images, rather a personal fav of mine:-) Feeding birds (jays) and squirrels, we get in-shell hard nuts for the sqs and put out peanuts for the jays
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