Melody of the meadow

It is a magnificent bird. You have captured it in full song on a natural perch. Excellent.
May

Nice capture. Singing pose really adds to this as I can hear that wonderful song that Meadow larks have. Nicely done.

You got a perfect singing pose, with the open beal and flared tail.
Nice detail, great BG and interesting perch.
Any chance for a closer crop ?
Fine image!

Sandy

Thanks for the comments. I appreciate wanting a close up. I like environmental shots personally, but here's a 50% crop (100% was over 1400 px long so can't post it here).

here's a 50% crop (100% was over 1400 px long so can't post it here).

No. A "50% crop" means that the image you post is 50% of the total frame, not a screen grab of a view at "50%." Just from looking at this I'd guess your close-up is about 16% of the total frame.

I like the meadowlark singing pose and the lines of the branch. You'd still have a strong composition showing the branch and a larger view of the meadowlark if you cropped the original to eliminate all the empty space in the left thiord of the frame and balanced the composition by taking some off the bottom.

Good one Geoff and I think it could also work in a vertical crop ~ maybe even better.

Nice pose, perch and great BG.

D&L

Very nice shot.. the colors are so sweet and peaceful.

Thanks again everyone. Mr. Ditch, you're only half right. Crops from 100% views are often called 100% crops. This is common terminology. I just couldn't post the 100% crop because it was too big, so I used a 50% number because it was basically half the size.

Two in one, both versions are very attractive photos, I like the original post a bit better though. Great Shot Geoff!!!

Ken Archer

Mr. Ditch, you're only half right. Crops from 100% views are often called 100% crops. This is common terminology.

Which half was right, and which half was wrong?

Crops from 100% views are often called 100% crops. This is common terminology.

This may be common terminology, but it is sloppy terminology and confusing. It is inconsistent with any real measure of cropping. What would you call an image that measures 2000x1500 pixels cropped out of a 3000x2000 original? I had to guess at what you meant by "50% crop" terminology as I'd never heard of anyone using a viewing magnification other than 100% to indicate a crop.

Mr. Ditch,

The part that was right was the part that referred to the cropping methodology whereby you derived the ~16% figure. The part that was wrong was the part where you dismissed the 100% crop terminology.

A 100% crop refers to a pixel per pixel view of the image (i.e. no magnification, shrinkage or enlargement of any kind). I appreciate the confusion, which comes from 100% of the viewable frame. However, you can view 100% of the frame at any size. That is to say a 4000x3000 px image can be displayed at 40x30, yet to refer to this as 100% is more misleading than portraying a tiny piece of that 4kx3k image and displaying it at...100%. I've never heard of a 1 for 1 (pixel for pixel) view of an image referred to as anything other than a 100% crop or view (even though only a portion of the image might be showing). This is true of any image editing software as well as any blog I've ever seen written on the internet.

It isn't my intention to get into a debate about silly semantics and my original text appears a bit sloppy by having referred to the 100% crop after the 50%, but I've never experienced a problem where someone didn't understand the context, until today. A better sentence might have read that this is a 100% crop reduced in size by 50% to meet with the posting requirements. The point of the text is for the viewer to understand that the bird could be viewed in that crop at ~1400px on the long edge at 100%, which indicates many things.

All the best.

Beautiful bird, beautiful light and colors.

I can hear him now. Nice use of space.

I much prefer the original posting. Wonderful photo!

I also like the original. A nice setting and subject.

Beautiful image, Geoff. I can almost here it singing. Nice job getting even this close. They are extremely difficult to photograph around here. They are very wary.

Excellent, Geoff. I love the composition and you handled the exposure perfectly.