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Hi Christian, welcome! This looks like your first post and you are in the right place. Good job on taking this using 70-200. I could imagine the hard work you put to get really close to this bird.
I think all tonalities are good here but I would suggest lightening up the dark green band on the BG next to the bird. Very beautiful pose, beautiful perch, and really nice OOF BG.
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I like the details in the feathers and nice beautiful out of focus background. Awesome job of getting close to your subject considering the fact that you shot this Nikon 70-200 mm f/2.8 lens with a tripod. Nice catch light in the eyes.
I would love to see this bird out in open, I haven't got that opportunity. I think you can try to increase the saturation of the orange color a bit more to see if that helps.
Welcome to forum, looking forward to your other shots..
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Welcome Christian!
I do like this very much. The BG is lovely and matches the perch beautifully. I am not familiar with the bird so unable to comment on his colours, only that the colour looks good and honest. The "over the shoulder" glance is very nice. I would be tempted to lighten his eye just a tad.
Well done!
Hope to see more soon!
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Excellent Christian! What a great catch of a Nuthatch posed that way! My only comment would be to do a little NR to the BG and lighten up the bird and perch ever so slightly. A gorgeous shot as it is with nice DOF. Welcome!
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Yes, welcome Christian! Happy to have you here!
If these little guys are as active as the ones I see (White-breasted), excellent work catching him, and the perfect pose too! Wonderful detail and sharpness, great color! It feels a little crowded at the bottom -- is there is a little more canvas there? Otherwise I'd crop a little from the top and left.
Looks like you know LR well -- my only suggestion might be for a little less saturation in the BG. It is lovely but competes a bit with the bird. It's always a difficult choice to subdue a BG without giving it a desaturated look, though, so maybe you hit a good median here.
Hope to see many more from you!!
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Hello!
Thank you all for your detailed and very helpful comments on my picture and your warm welcome.
I really fell in love with these little fellows and I hope to get some action pictures someday when they are about to land or start on/from the perch. It is fun to watch them run headlong down the tree with a nut or a worm, stick it in the bark and peck it like a woodpecker.
@Adhika Lie
I'll try that. I also think this could be a bit distracting.
@Krishna Prasad kotti
What sort of nuthatches live in your area, Krishna?
@Glennie Passier
Thanks for you suggestion with the eye, Glennie.
@Warren Spreng This is my next PS lesson... seperating the foreground from the background :-)
@Diane Miller
This kind is very active! I have a little more canvas at the bottom. I'll see what I can do.
Today I bought an almost new Sigma 150-600 C due to its flexibility and affordability for a beginner and, Oh boy!, I failed completely at keeping the focus on some distant swallows :-). Tomorrow I'll practice a bit and also but this monster on my tripod and see if I can make some good and sharp pictures.
Best wishes from the heart of Bavaria, Germany,
Christian
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Hello!
Thank you all for the detailed critique and suggestions. My long reply wasn't posted and is lost :-(
I bought a Sigma 150-600 C today as it is flexible and affordable for me. Oh boy, I failed completely at keeping focus on some distant swallows :-). I'll start practicing hand holding this "little monster" tomorrow and also put it onto my tripod to see if I can take good and sharp pictures.
Thanks and best wished from the middle of Bavaria in Germany,
Christian
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I've lost a few replies, too. But only long ones... I recently saw a very good review of that lens by Greg Basco and our own Doug Brown:
http://www.deepgreenphotography.com/...gma-150-600-mm
Swallows are very challenging. Find some larger slower targets at first. Keep practicing -- you'll get it worked out!
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I believe Glennie uses the same Sigma 150-600 Contemporary as well. I think that lens is an awesome one.
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Christian, I use the Sigma 150-600 Sport. I don't know how much of a difference there is. I started out with the lens a bit unsure of it's ability, but now I know that inability was mine. I am very happy with it now although weight training has commenced so I don't get so many grass shots! I find if I sit with my knees up I can balance the lens and it doesn't break my arm so much. I use a tripod often but I know I am missing a lot of potentially, reasonable images.
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Glennie,
There are so many reviews about these two lenses and also in comparison with the Nikon 200-500. I stopped reading them and decided to find it out by myself and bought this one. I wonder if one could order a spare (plastics) lens hood of the C version and put it on the (metal) S version to reduce some of the total weight and at the front end.
Christian
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Now there's an idea! I'll look into that.
