This is my first post to this forum and I hope it belongs here. The photo was taken with a canon Xti camera, 400 mm f5.6 lens with a kenko 1.4x teleconverter. The image is cropped and a few out of focus cattail stems were cloned from the side of the picture. Other equipment included a tripod with ball head and waders.
Very nice singing pose, eye contact, perch and complementing BG. I agree on more sharpening of the bird and would crop a bit off the right and left to get the bird out of the center. Keep them coming!
Great timing to catch this little wren singing and a very pleasing perch and pose. I agree about the cropping and sharpening !!! Thanks for sharing Dave.
This is really nice, and sure it belongs! I agree with the crop comments. Some exposure info would be useful. It looks like there might be some movement of the subject or the camera, causing slight softness. I noticed the small size of the image. You could have saved it as a jpeg up to 200 k which would reduce jpeg anomalies. Though not obvious here, anomalies can contribute to overall softness of the image.
I'm sure the softness is caused partly because of the tele-converter, and third party at that. HAving said that, you could work on the image, crop it a bit on both sides to get a vertical, and then sharpen a bit more.
Looking forward to more and thanks for getting your feet wet posting :)
marsh wren
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