Calling his mates

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Folks;

Our Arizona State bird, Cactus Wren is calling his mates together for a Chit Chat about the rising economy. "No cuts in feed allowance."

Comments & Redo's always welcome.

I shoot RAW & Fine Large JPG. This time used the JPG with very little crop, and very little USM only.

Olympus E-3, Zuiko Digital 70-300mm f4.0-5.6 ED, @ 140-600 mm equiv. fill flash, Olympus TTL @-o.30
Aperture Priority: f/5.6, 1/1250s, ISO 250, 0.30eV, CWA, AWB

[Peter Farrell]

Very nice, Gus. Good detail and sharpness. An interesting BG, I like it. Wish the perch was smaller and not cut at the end. Also wish he was turned towards us a little more.
Peter

[Cody Covey]

Hi Folks;

Our Arizona State bird, Cactus Wren is calling his mates together for a Chit Chat about the rising economy. "No cuts in feed allowance."

Comments & Redo's always welcome.

I shoot RAW & Fine Large JPG. This time used the JPG with very little crop, and very little USM only.

Olympus E-3, Zuiko Digital 70-300mm f4.0-5.6 ED, @ 140-600 mm equiv. fill flash, Olympus TTL @-o.30
Aperture Priority: f/5.6, 1/1250s, ISO 250, 0.30eV, CWA, AWB

agree this is a nice picture and I think one that would be much better with a couple degrees more towards the camera HA. Nice job!

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Peter;

I can fix the branch: Cropped piece of branch behind feet behind feet, flipped, positioned and cleaned with bg eraser. Head angle will have to do. Doesn't annoy me.

Thanks for looking

Best regards

Gus

[Cody Covey]

Hi Peter;

I can fix the branch: Cropped piece of branch behind feet behind feet, flipped, positioned and cleaned with bg eraser. Head angle will have to do. Doesn't annoy me.

Thanks for looking

Best regards

Gus

Ahh come on, you mean you can't go tell the bird to move his head a little :) I like the second image a lot, wonderful job! ( not that I didn't like the first )

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Cody;

Thanks for both of your kind comments. Maybe if hide the suet he'll look my way for it? Not as out in left field as it sounds - my goldfinches would never pose on the branch under the thistle feeder, so, I took the feeder down and for 2 days they were sitting on the branch looking for the feeder.

Just something I learned in god's country in the North West. When I got tired of the rain I moved to sunny Arizona.

Best regards

Gus

[Cody Covey]

Hi Cody;

Thanks for both of your kind comments. Maybe if hide the suet he'll look my way for it? Not as out in left field as it sounds - my goldfinches would never pose on the branch under the thistle feeder, so, I took the feeder down and for 2 days they were sitting on the branch looking for the feeder.

Just something I learned in god's country in the North West. When I got tired of the rain I moved to sunny Arizona.

Best regards

Gus

Yeah I live on the dry side so we don't get much rain. (although it is pouring today haha)