House Finch

[Gus Hallgren]

Took this photo of female House Finch in our garden today.

Comments always welcome, redo; too :)

Gus

Olympus E-3, Zuiko ED 50-200mm f2.8-3.5 SWD @ 400mm, Gitzo monopod
AP: F/5.6, 1/1000s, ISO 100, -0.70eV, CWA, sRGB, AWB

[Julie Kenward]

Gus, did you add a texture to this or are my eyes really tired? I'm seeing some kind of pattern througout the image...

[John Chardine]

Hi Gus- Jules is right, there is a pattern there- a graininess. I suspect it is caused by sharpening the noise in the image. The graininess is not really that noticeable on the bird because the feather detail covers it up. It is noticeable in the plain background. I think a round of noise reduction on the BG, by first masking out the subject, would work well here.

I like the pose and the "dreamy" background. The head is on straight but I wonder if a small CCW rotation would be a better head angle (I am frequently confused about this particular body angle/head angle combo).

Although I think the wide border is attractive for mounting I think it might distract a little from the critique point of view.

[Richard Unsworth]

Hi

I also see grain in the bird and BG.

How did you get 400mm from the Zuiko, or am I missing something?

I like the simplicity of this, but personally would lose the border, perhaps replacing with a vertical crop.

Never heard of House Finch, tfs
Rich