Savannah Sp. & Repost

Gallery: AvianPosted October 13, 2016143 views6 comments

There were a lot of Savannah's at Ridgefield Monday. Usually the predominate sparrow there has been the Song Sparrow, but they seemed to be far outnumbered by the Savannahs this time. Some of them were quite cooperative and they were either all juveniles or have just finished molting recently because they were all in wonderfully immaculate plumage.

7DII, Sigma 150-600 C @ 600 mm, bean bag on car window, f/7.1, 1/400, iso 640, aperture priority, pattern metering. Processed in LR5 & CS6. Cropped to 8.1 MP before resizing. Taken at 11:31 AM on October 10th.

Comments and criticisms are always appreciated.

Thanks,

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Barbara Graham on October 13, 2016 at 11:06 PM

Beautiful colors and detail. I don't understand what they are, but the OOF things along the branch right under the bird look odd. If I understand what they were it would probably help. Otherwise the colors of the branch and the rest of the background are awesome.

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Comment posted by Steve Thompson on October 14, 2016 at 2:29 PM

Really sweet detail in the sparrow Dennis. Nice pose too. But like Barbara, I find the oof area in the lower left a little distracting. It would be tough to do anything to remove or correct it. Maybe a vertical crop?

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on October 14, 2016 at 9:15 PM

Lovely detail in this one Dennis, ditto what Steve said regarding the lower left. devil

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Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on October 15, 2016 at 11:37 AM

Excellent detail in the bird, but I'm another vote with Steve.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on October 15, 2016 at 2:20 PM

Here's a different version. I stole a few leaves from the area I'f cropped and put them over the oof area in the lower left.

Thanks for the input.

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Comment posted by Steve Thompson on October 16, 2016 at 12:58 PM

Great work Dennis. I can't tell tell anything was done. Huge Improvement! devil

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