Mourning Dove

[Gus Hallgren]

HiFolks:

With the White-winged Doves all wintering in Mexico for the winter, the Mourning Doves were sticking on the ground in the leaves instead of the rocks & branches waiting for their turn when the WW's had their fill. Oh well! Beggars can't be choosey ;)

Uncle Gus

CC's always welcome & appreciated . . .

Olympus E-520 IS, Zuiko 70-300 ED 2x factor.
Aperture priority
F 5.6, 1000s, ISO 100, -0.70eV, Auto WB, 480mm focal length

[denise ippolito]

Gus, sure looks sharp! Love the mourning doves-find them hard to crop,but you did a great job w/ this guy!

[Gus Cobos]

A very nice composition and capture Uncle Gus...you have sharp details and good color rendition...all you need to do now is run a little bit of noise reduction in the background and your good to go...congrats...:cool:

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Gus:

Here you are, selected BG with QM, and used Noiseware Pro . . .

Thanks for the improvement CC.

Think maybe I should of blurred BG a bit??

Uncle Gus

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Hey Uncle Gus and Aunt Gina:
Thank you for your kind words that you've shared.
I'm surprised that the HAP has not said anything to you on this one????
Great capture though.
Regards,

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Gus For bg blurring I like to take it to a point it would seem realistic. Just as if it was taken with a lens wide open but not much more.

Would give the bird more room in frame and maybe bring the temp down a little, looks very warm.

Oscar head angle is not bad, imagine would be better a little more looking away :) .. but will give him twenty lashes just for principle :D:D:D

[Nonda Surratt]

Gus nice detail! Doves are quite pretty birds

Everthing else covered

[Jeni Williams]

Flip, you guys ARE fussy!!! Head Not looking at you - Head looking at you too much!!!:confused::confused::confused:;)
Lol - enjoy the 20 lashes Oom Gus!!!:p I think it's sharp with lots of detail.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

The colours in the BG are lovely Gus, just a bit more NR. Lighting looks good, can't see shadows anywhere. Very sharp too.