Red-breasted Nuthatch (female)
Nikon D200, 70-200 2.8 + TC 1.7
focal length 300mm
f/8 1/500 sec
ISO 320
Not the typical Nuthatch perch, my only decent shot so far. This little girl is so tame she perched on my jeans while I was getting set up. Wish the whole branch were in focus...
Last edited by Arthur Morris; 02-03-2008 at 05:56 AM. Reason: was/were
I Iove the pose and the red color of branch!!!
A really lovely portrait of the female Nuthatch Caroline - great pose, colour and BG. I like this perch of yours (same as in your Chickadee-fruit-toss image) . Very well executed!!
Ditto the above plus very sharp. If you were on a tripod and the background was quite distant, you could easily have gone down to f/13 or so and gotten the perch stuff sharper. If you did that, there is always the danger of bringing up distracting background detail. I like it a lot as is.
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Great pose, details and perch. You could crop a bit off the left since the bird is a bit centered anyway.
This was taken in my dad's backyard, unfortunately f/13 would bring up distracting background elements. Thank you for the comments, there is so much to learn here.Originally Posted by Arthur Morris
Nice shot Caroline! I agree with Axel that you've got room to crop away some of the OOF stuff at the bottom left.
WOW!! What a neat image. My only nit would be to get th ebird out of the center by adding to the right and taking some off the left.
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