White-crowned Sparrow

Gallery: AvianPosted September 6, 201381 views4 comments

Hi! I took this picture in the spring, but we've been really busy and I didn't have a chance to post until now.

This is a white-crowned sparrow I photographed in Waterton Lakes National Park. We had pulled over on one of the roads to look for bears when all of the sudden this guy flew to a perch right beside me! I took a bunch of pictures because he was posing like crazy. He flew off but all the sudden came right back, except this time with a moth in its beak! I was very happy he chose a clear perch for me!

I hope you like it! Thanks for looking!

Nikon D300
Nikkor AF-S 300mm f/4 IF-ED
ISO 640
1/1250sec @ f/5
-0.3EV
On beanbag fro truck window

Dad's notes:
Josiah's learned to choose appropriate apertures and watch his histograms, so he made his own decisions on this one!
Cropped to 80% of original
Cloned out three distracting OOF branches bottom center

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Keith Bauer on September 6, 2013 at 7:40 PM

Josiah: Great sharpness, and a wonderful pose. The moth is just icing on the cake!! Nicely captured. You created a very different composition. It has a nice feel to it. Thanks for sharing the image.

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Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on September 7, 2013 at 9:39 AM

Nice to capture the sparrow with a moth. This would work nicely as a vertical, too. Nice bg. Sharon

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on September 7, 2013 at 7:53 PM

I agree with Keith about the quality of the image, and with Sharon about a vertical crop. Way too much wasted space on the right. Worth playing with. I like this photo very much, Josiah. You are making great progress!

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Comment posted by Josiah Launstein on January 24, 2015 at 4:37 PM

Thank you everyone for commenting on my picture.

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