Cardinal & Blue Jay

[mediamanrit]

This is the first photograph I'm posting up on the forum, so be gentle, but let me know what you think. I was using the 75-300mm USM lens at 300mm for the first time, and didn't notice the shutter speed was a little low, combined with a windy day, produced a bit of a fuzzy shot. However, I think it was much better after I turned it into a B&W shot and hand colored the birds. What do you all think?

[Michaelmjc]

Very nice, but if it were closer it would be a lot better. It's hard to see the detail in it.

[mediamanrit]

I agree...I'm going to try to zoom in on the original later on and see how it comes out. Hopefully it won't be too blurry. Thanks!

[HJMinard]

Tiny subject matter is a problem, but nice concept and execution.

[PacAce]

Okay, I see the cardinal, the house sparrow and the gorilla but where's the blue jay? :confused:

[condyk]

Is there a prize for spotting where these birds are :lol: Just joking!

[Jim_T]

It looks like all you did was take the whole image and scale it down to 640 x 427

What you should be doing is cropping the image...

Cut out just the area with the birds and discard the rest... Process that and post just that. That way *all* you'll be showing is the birds.. There's no need to show all those branches :)

That's a good combo BTW .. Blue and red together.. I've seen lots of jays and cardinals, but I've never seen that pair together..

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I just took the liberty to crop the image for you.. I expanded your image back to 3072x2048.. Then I cropped a 640x480 area around the birds.

The quality is really bad, because there's no way I could get back the lost data from the orignal downsize.. But it gives you an idea of what you should do when you post iamges :)


http://www.mts.net/~jwt/cropped.jpg