Fledgling House Sparrow

[Dan Brown]

Lots of baby birds begging in the backyard today. This little one was waiting his/her turn! Cropped about 20%, selectively sharpened the bird and (big) perch, NR on BG. Cloned out a couple hanging pieces of bark along the perch bottom edge. C&C welcome.



Camera Model: NIKON D300, handheld
Lens: 400 f3.5
Shutter speed: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure mode: Manual
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Multi-segment
ISO: 800
Focal length: 400mm
Focal length: 600mm (in 35mm film)

[Randy Stout]

Dan:

The little fellow is just as cute as can be, well exposed, sweet pose. I would def. tone down the brightest green areas, they pull the eye from the subject. A vignette style burn would be good.

I can see some apparent clone marks along the bottom of the perch.


Cheers

Randy

[Joe Senzatimore]

Even the invasive species can be cute , as proven here. Love the "fluffed up " look. Great detils captured.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Ha! This little fella is way too cute :-) Although the perch is big it has tons of character and it goes well with the frontal fluffed-up pose of this young one. I'd crop some off the top and left, but I like the rest.