Thanks Jack! The river OOF in the background accounts for the cooler background colors. PS... I'm not great at bird I.D. yet. All those little boogers are sparrows, to me.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Really well presented, Darren! Love the surrounding reed pattern. > Placement of the sparrow(?) and the direction of it's view, are > especially well chosen. > > J > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Darren Addy" <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 6:38:55 AM > Subject: PESO: Beside the Platte River > > Still looking for decent images from the myriad I took the day I was > birding with my sister a few weeks ago. I always knew that birds were > challenging subjects, but I certainly have a greater appreciation for > those that capture them after seeing what an incredibly high > percentage of reject images I got from that day. The whole experience > even has me eyeing those 256GB SD cards. I really only got a meager > handful of images that I would want to show anybody and most of them > are quite ordinary. > > This is certainly an ordinary bird and a pretty ordinary shot, but at > least it made it into the small pile that I care to show anyone. It is > a vertical crop from a horizontal image taken with the K-3 and the old > Sigma EX 50-500mm f4-6.3 APO DG. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/22777551706/in/dateposted-public/ > > Comments and criticism welcome in equal measure. > > -- > Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
