What is this little guy?

I was waiting on the hummer or the finch to try a shot with the 1.4 tc but only this little bird showed up.

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Carolina Wren.

Thanks

I really like these. Great color and a nicely composed setting. The flowers really frame the shot well.

Could use a bit of mid tone brightening but very nice work.

Nighthound wrote in post #8359896
I really like these. Great color and a nicely composed setting. The flowers really frame the shot well.

Could use a bit of mid tone brightening but very nice work.

Thank you very much. I liked them myself. I haven't shot birds much but it seems interesting. I didn't know if the fact that the flowers are so out of focus that they might not be recognizable.

Nice shots. The flowers are fine, it's the bird people in the bird forum are interested in.

canonloader wrote in post #8361815
Nice shots. The flowers are fine, it's the bird people in the bird forum are interested in.

Would you say a picture of a given bird is as interesting on a feeder as it would be on a flower? Would the picture of the bird be as interesting virtually devoid of any scenery surrounding the bird? I have an opinion, I wondered what a person with your obvious experience thought about it.

I think it depends on the bird and the circumstances. For me, the two shots above are very nice, artistic, but then, I know what a Carolina Wren looks like in great detail, because I had one stay a full winter here. But when I see pictures of Australian birds, I like to see the bird, as it would be shown in a book of birds. I am not interested in the background, just the look and details of the bird itself. Even better would be to see them in their habitat and up close.

Feeder shots are not so well liked, however, there are some great behavioral shots I have seen of feeder action. I know people that will not take a shot of any bird if there is evidence of "the hand of man" in it. I think that way of thinking is stilted and designed to cut a lot of laughs and knowledge from your life. For instance, some birds have adapted to using barbed wire to hold their caught insects for later consumption, and I have seen some very cute shots of juvie birds trying to balance on a piece of wire. To not take the shot or scoff at it because it has a piece of wire in the frame is a little tightly wrapped for me.

So the bird is the star of the show, whatever props he might use and I want a clear view of him most of the time.

canonloader wrote in post #8367683
I think it depends on the bird and the circumstances. For me, the two shots above are very nice, artistic, but then, I know what a Carolina Wren looks like in great detail, because I had one stay a full winter here. But when I see pictures of Australian birds, I like to see the bird, as it would be shown in a book of birds. I am not interested in the background, just the look and details of the bird itself. Even better would be to see them in their habitat and up close.

Feeder shots are not so well liked, however, there are some great behavioral shots I have seen of feeder action. I know people that will not take a shot of any bird if there is evidence of "the hand of man" in it. I think that way of thinking is stilted and designed to cut a lot of laughs and knowledge from your life. For instance, some birds have adapted to using barbed wire to hold their caught insects for later consumption, and I have seen some very cute shots of juvie birds trying to balance on a piece of wire. To not take the shot or scoff at it because it has a piece of wire in the frame is a little tightly wrapped for me.

So the bird is the star of the show, whatever props he might use and I want a clear view of him most of the time.

Thanks for the well thought out answer.

It may appear that the wren is standing on his bird house, when actually I built that bird house to install my surveillance camera in. Here is another.

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Cool setup, on the bird house, but getting back to the original posted photo i have to say it's a very well composed shot.
Thanks for sharing it.

What kind of camera are you using in there? I am just about to put one up for my yard.

canonloader wrote in post #8371781
What kind of camera are you using in there? I am just about to put one up for my yard.

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