Hi Mike Why don't you post the original as it came out of the camera, just size and post. I think there is something going on with the precessing !!!
Remember these little birds are as difficult a subject as you can come up with !!! They don't stand in one place for any amount of time, live is cluttered places, are often bathed in mixed light and are very small !!! Do not judge your photo progress based on these guys !!! Looking forward to the original !!!
i like the low perspective, mike. and the bird looks perfect size in the frame and the compo is good too. i hope you do put up the original to let us take a look at it. might can help a lot more!!
Agree, post the orig! Not being a post processing whiz, (meaning I could be very wrong), I've though for a while there might be something going on there.
Great low angle and eye contact! With little birdies I would be real tempted to lower the f-stop to keep shutter speed up. Thses guys are always twitchy-flitting around so there is the need for speed
ah hah!!! i think i found your problem, mike!!! you need to get a ton closer to your subject!! you need to get it almost as large in your view finder as you want the final picture to be. when you crop a pic as large as you have, there are very few details in the bird that you could recover. i know there will be other suggestions too!!
HI Mike Thanks With that big a crop there is no possibility doing anything Image quality will be degraded
Do try approaching closer/longer focal length You can also have a small bird in frame and make it look attractive. Just as a guideline you want the bird to take up about 75% of the frame. Cropping wise you probably don't want to crop much more than 25% of the image. Some people do crop heavily and don't say anything but it shows.
How to get a good size bird in frame? Longer focal length or getting closer. Usually is a mix of the two.
Nothing wrong with a 300mm lens, just need to be sneakier;). Find some park or other place that has feeders is often photo rich if you don't have a super tel, birds are more use to humans. Sit next to a tree and often birds will just ignore you and sometimes you can get a nice close-up. The longer the lens, it does get a bit easier,but if you don't have one it is still doable..You probably won't get full frame but still quite nice.
Find a feeder and photo birds around it (I think that's the easiest place to find birds and allow you to be close to them). When you first approach, they may get scarred and fly away. Stay there and wait. Once they're used to you, they'd come back. They have to eat after all. Hey, if you don't tell, who the heck knows where you photo the birds :D:D
Mike do a search in Arites bulletins He wrote some on Judd Patterson one of our moderators, a couple of years ago he only used a 300 (longest0 and you should see what he came up with.
Artie wrote it as an example for people wishing longer focal length. Worth reading !!!
hi mike!! i did some research. i like to call it taking a trip, with my google earth. went up to west chester pa and looked around. found a place called marsh creek state park. there seemed to be quite a bit of photographic opportunities around that place. always best to put yourself at a place with a lot of action. the more opportunities you have in a day the better. never been there but found several sites that said marsh creek is excellent in spring and fall during duck migrations!!! i love ducks!!! sounds like a good possibility!! hope its not too far away.
wt. breasted nuthatch
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