These birds are around most of the year, during summer they seem to be more active in my area. Photographed early morning after a night of heavy rain.
Not sure if this is sharp enough, interested in your thoughts. Shutter speed was to slow to stop head movement I think. OOF tail also bothers me a little.
Olympus E500, 50-200mm, EC14
RAW, 1/200 F/4.9 ISO 400, Ap Priority 0 comp.
Levels, curves, smart sharpen. Cloned out leaves top left corner.
Dear Ian, I like images like this where there is interaction between birds. To me the head seems OK, but I am looking on a laptop screen, you might have seen at 1:1 ratio. The BG is nice too.
Sharpness is pretty good as is the BKGR, COMP, and interaction. I like this one a lot. Do you know the full species name?
later and love and thaks for posting, artie
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Very nice. I think it is plenty sharp enough. If I look really hard, I see that the bird on the right is slightly sharper than the one on the left. To me, that is exactly as it should be if there is a choice to make between the two.
I might try a little selective sharpening on the face of the bird on the left and / or brighten that area up just a little.
Those are really tiny tiny nits though and I like it plenty just as presented.
Last edited by Jim Poor; 02-08-2008 at 09:41 AM.
Reason: Can't tell my right from left ;)
Thanks everyone, thanks for supplying the full name Craig. I gew up with these birds and we used to call them Soldier Birds, I have also heard them called squeakers in another part of the country.
Hi Ian - you have captured these two Miners in an interesting pose and both sharp where it counts. The diagonal perch and soft BG also add impact to the composition. Only nit is the slight blue cast on birds. Well done!!