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Spotted this common linnet keeping an eye on my dogs this morning,as we walked over some of our west coast headlands.
ISO400 Raw capture (Handheld)
Best viewed large.....Thanks for lookin.............
Tony.
| Camera: | Canon EOS 30D |
| Lens: | Sigma 170-500mm f5-6.3 APO |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Title: | Linnet |
| Username: | 
norton |
| Uploaded: | 28 Apr 2009 - 12:58 PM |
| Tags: | Wildlife / nature |
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Cracking shot Tony... lovely detail and colour
Jon
Many thanks for your comment brian1208,but i dont think a touch of fill-in flash would have helped me much,this shot was captured with a 170-500mm lens at full zoom and then cropped to bring it in even closer,so the flash would not have been of any use.
Regards.....Tony.
Has to be the best Linnet I have witnessed on here. Superb detail, pin sharp and great exposure. If fill in flash had been used you would have lost the tones of the chest, such a difficult bird to expose well.
All this has been written with envy and worn out boots trying to get this close to Linnets...lol
Superb
Richard
A stunning capture with lovely colours and great detail.
Jean x
A nice image showing the bird on a typical gorse perch.
I've also been busy photographing these birds recently and the very dark eye is typical of this species. I can fully appreciate Brian's comment amount the eye benefiting from a catchlight but IMHO flash wouldn't be the ideal answer in this situation, for the following reason; the flash would only create a sharply defined highlight in the eye, which works fine in some situations. In this instance bexause you're shooting upwards at quite a steep angle, the catchlight from the flash would quite possibly look a little out of place as it would likely appear in the lower half of the eye, which may look a little odd and unnatural looking.
I do agree with Brian's suggestion that the eye is looking a bit lifeless, but a better solution rather than using flash in this instance IMHO, and one that is well worth the minimal effort, is to make a quick selection of the eye and adjust the highlight slider inwards to brighten the natural catchlight created by the sky, assuming it's there in the original file.
Just a suggestion, for what it's worth.
Justin
Superb razor sharp detail. Beautiful colour and composition. Absolutely stunning Tony.
Steve.
Another cracking natural history image, he's posing beautifully for you
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