Mama Sparrow

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I thought you guys might be getting tired of my shots over here, so I posted a different crop of this over in the SYS section the other day, but it hasn't gotten any comments, so I'm baaaack! Hope you don't mind! I'm just learning so much, I keep wanting to put more pics up!



This mama & her partner have 3 (we think, we can't see inside) nestlings that they are feeding in the birdhouse about 6 feet from our glass back door. I've been waiting impatiently to get a shot of one of them & finally caught one the other morning while we were enjoying our coffee on the deck. The only PP is a crop.

How is the DOF & comp?
Anything you would change in PP?

(I gave in and ordered LR3 after trying for 2 hours to figure out 1 function in GIMP the other day. LR3 should arrive in a few days and I'm itching to get my hands on it!)

[karen_s]

The DOF is good. The background greens look nice and the focus seems to be well on the house and bird.

If it were mine, I would experiment with a vertical crop. There are some strong vertical lines from the tree and the house and I would use those to lead the eye up and down the photo. As is, those lines seem to compete with the horizontal crop. It would be a tighter crop too which I think would bring more attention to the bird. He is giving you a pretty sweet pose.

I might also bring up the exposure a bit. The whites of the house look somewhat gray.

Overall though, I think the shot has some nice potential.

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Anyone else? Where's Colonel Sanders & Spookie?