Rock Pipit

[Richard Stern]

On a seaside bench at Budleigh Salterton, Devon, during my recent UK visit. Quite a large crop, and ran noise reduction on the bg.

D300, 300 f/4 AF-S + 1.4TC, hand-held.

1/1250, f/7.1, ISO640

Thanks for looking, and comments.

Richard

[Nancy Bell]

Hi Richard. Lovely capture with a good, alert posture. Maybe the alternating bars of color in the BG could be toned down so they are not so distracting.

[Marina Scarr]

Lovely bird and pose here. I actually find the BG somewhat interesting in this particular case. I would add more room to the top or take a little off the bottom. I see a small halo around the beak and head which could have come from when you did NR on just the BG.

Thank you for sharing.

Marina

[Arthur Morris]

I like the BKGR, the body position, and the head angle to go with it. EXP perfect and it held up well to the crop. What is the perch?

[Richard Stern]

Thanks for the feedback - the perch (and bg) is a wooden bench, and the bird is one one of the arms.

Richard

[Daniel Cadieux]

Sweet bird. For me I'm so-so with the BG, but I do like the complementary colours of it though. I'd probably clone/patch out the small pale nick in the benches paint in front of the feet.