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    Default House sparrow (M) (Passer domesticus)

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    Another shot from my back garden during lockdown

    Olympusl : E-M1X
    Lens: OLYMPUS M.40-150mm F2.8
    Lens focal length : 150 mm
    Focal Length (35 mm conversion) : 300.0mm
    Metering mode : Pattern
    Exposure mode : Manual exposure
    ISO Sensitivity : 1000
    Exposure compensation : 0.0 EV
    Shutter speed : 1/3200 sec
    Aperture : F5.6
    Flash : OFF

    ACR & PSCC

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    Your getting good at this Jon...I feel that the flight pose here would benefit from more room all around. Its a pity that the birds right wing is slightly blurred compared to the other one. The colours on the sparrow are spot on...I think a faster SS would help. I was doing Eiders in flight last week and even at 1/3200 they were showing quite a bit of blur on the wings...at take off.

    Good work....If it hadn't been for lockdown you probably wouldn't have tried this.

    Will

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    Nice effort and fun but this is a bad head angle....
    Dan Kearl

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    Love the look on the bird. Pretty funny. Nice view of the feet as well.

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    Hi Jon ....agree with Will , without Corona we might have not seen this kinda shots from you .

    I like it really a lot , seeing your progress. The head angle might be not optimal but I still like it though . Wonderfully spreader wings and the feet facing forward are nice .Think you could afford a tiny bit more depth in the mid tones and I might drop the blues in the subject a fraction .

    Nice one and TFS Andreas

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    OOH if that was square on Jon... would either move position or cloak the post in the BKG.

    TFS
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    Looks like you are having fun with this project. How many shutter clicks have you used up since lockdown?
    The post is the problem for me. I would clone it out.
    Good wing flare.

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    Thanks everyone for your comments. I am at a bit of a loss though regarding the head position, I just don't get it what's the big deal if the head is perpendicular to the sensor, I do have shots like that but then, you see the eyes at almost 180 degrees, so what is good about that?
    Gail that is an out of focus tree, one day I might deal with it another not, I am fickle about things like that, - I don't know why I just am. Shutter clicks since lockdown = 0, I use electronic shuter.
    Last edited by Jonathan Ashton; 05-06-2020 at 09:09 AM.

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