Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow 2

[Ilija Dukovski]

I went back to Belle Island today, had better light and got closer to the birds.
I know that many will find the BG too busy and the OOF grass distracting,
with these guys in the grass it is either steep angle or OOF grass in front.
Comments appreciated.

Nikon D80 Nikkor 300mm AF-S + TC1.4 f/8 1/200
Matrix AP +2/3 Fill Flash

[Fabs Forns]

Interesting bird. If that where they live, you got to get them there.
Making the greens darker would help handling the busy BG IMO.

[Harshad Barve]

I ditto fabs here , Cute bird
Thanks for sharing
Harshad

[Axel Hildebrandt]

This one works much better. I like the composition, eye contact and actually like the patterns of the grass. I like Fabs' idea of desaturating the greens a few points.

[Leo Berzins]

Nice alert pose. A well composed bird in habitat shot.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Interesting bird. If that where they live, you got to get them there.
Making the greens darker would help handling the busy BG IMO.

I've got bunch of them, will try darker grass in the next one, TXS.

[Ilija Dukovski]

This one works much better. I like the composition, eye contact and actually like the patterns of the grass. I like Fabs' idea of desaturating the greens a few points.

Thanks Axel, I tried to keep the grass pattern diaginal.
I actually had real trouble getting the jpeg saturated. When I previewed the jpeg in the browser (Firefox)
I got very desat image, color space set to sRGB, still no good. Had to go back to tiff in PS several times
and saturate to get the orange in jpeg in browser to be the same as in PS tiff. Any ideas why?

[Ilija Dukovski]

Nice alert pose. A well composed bird in habitat shot.

Thanks Leo, I'm glad you like the comp :)

[Ed Schneider]

What a great bird! I've had no luck seeing these (yet :))

The habitat is where it's at! With persistence, you'll get one less cluttered.

[Ilija Dukovski]

What a great bird! I've had no luck seeing these (yet :))

The habitat is where it's at! With persistence, you'll get one less cluttered.

Don't you just love them:). You should hear the song, it is unreal.
I actually have some less cluttered, will try to post later.

Thanks for the comment!

[Simon Bennett]

I like the alert pose and inclusion of habitat.