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Redpoll II


Redpoll II
Photo Information
Copyright: Gert Ellstrom (ellis49) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3390 W: 343 N: 9500] (30867)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-02-10
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon EOS 20D, Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM, Digital RAW 200
Exposure: f/6.3, 1/160 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-02-15 2:32
Viewed: 1527
Points: 52
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Today’s post is a small but beautiful bird, Redpoll, Gråsiska in Swedish.
It’s a beautiful little bird with pink breast and red toupee of the head.
This one sitting in an alder and eat seeds from the cones.
It’s a quite common bird here and most of them it stay the winter.
They are very acrobatic birds and very often sitting upside down.
The have a beautiful song, sound like small bells
I took it down our small river on a sunny day with clear blue sky.

some info about the Redpoll
The Redpoll is a small streaky brown finch usually located by its loud rattling call. Redpolls can usually be identified by the little red spot on the forehead which gives them their name. In females, however, this red colour can be indistinct and in juveniles it can be lacking altogether. Such birds would have to be identified by their small size, chunky shape and streaky dark brown plumage, lacking the greens and yellows of Serins or Siskins or the white in the wing and tail of a Linnet or Twite.

Source and more info.

Canon 70-300 IS USM
ISO 100, Raw-format, av-mode, partial metering, One-shot auto focus.
Convert, Levels, Contrast, Crop, resized to 800 pixels, Smart Sharpen on the B/W channel in lab-colours. I used Adobe Photoshop CS2 for PP
carper, marjan, Luc, dew77, Janice, scottevers7, fiyo, coasties, ALIRIZA, PerR, loot, marhowie, red45, liquidsunshine, goutham_ramesh, Luis52, Actiereactie has marked this note useful
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well taken shot Gert,
fantastic in colours and what a capture, good pov and exelent composition, well done.
gr. jaap

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  • manyee Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3068 W: 231 N: 6168] (21078)
  • [2006-02-15 3:19]

A very colorful little bird indeed, Gert. What an acrobatic pose. Super sharp details and love the blue sky. TFS. : )

Gert, this is an excellent picture. Great colours, excellent sharpness and POV/DOF. Great lighting and note note too. This is a very nice composition. Well done. Thank you.

Hi Gert, is it the same tree like one with Gråsiska? Bird is different and excelent again. So nice details and face of thsi bussy bird. Very nice notice about it too. TFS
Marjan

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  • dew77 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4774 W: 294 N: 4020] (13209)
  • [2006-02-15 4:52]

Hello Gert!
Excellent photo.Moment you caught,blue BG,colors,contrast,
details,POV and composition are wonderful.TFS...:-)

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3315 W: 148 N: 6113] (18648)
  • [2006-02-15 4:58]

You caught him in an excellent shot Gert! He is so cute to see and has excellent colours and sharpness too. Well done my friend.
Janice

Hi Gert,
Excellent shot on this little beauty. Outstanding composition, framing, and pose captured. He is well isolated against that nice blue sky. Detail is very sharp. The DOF and clarity here are amazing.
Great work my friend!
Scott

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  • jossim Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1575 W: 5 N: 2181] (12252)
  • [2006-02-15 7:34]

Excellente prise Gert,l'oiseau en action pour ce nourire est parfaite et l'éclairage fait bien sortir les détails du plumage. Félicitations pour la pose de l'oiseau et les belles couleurs.

Merci!


joseph

hi gert
couleurs magnifiques pour le ciel et l'oiseau,posture amusante et bons details,felicitations.
laurent

Gert - that is amazing.

The detail and colours are wonderful. And the look on the bird tops it off.

Well Done

Emma

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  • SkyF Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2233 W: 188 N: 1929] (8127)
  • [2006-02-15 8:05]
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Hello Gert,
this is a beautiful bird and you captured it so well. The colors a great and the details are nice and sharp. Excellent composition, a bit distracting is the shadow on the lower left, this could easiely be cloned out.
Sky

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  • fiyo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 987 W: 5 N: 2764] (10622)
  • [2006-02-15 10:33]

Hello Gert,
Very nice capture with perfect POV. Sharpness, colors, light, composition, everything is excellent !

Hi Gert,
First of all I wanna congratulate you for the fantastic shoot and interesting composition. Good colors, POV, framing and detail you have caught.Well done ..
ALIRIZA

Hi Gert,
a very artistic position he has while he's eating ;-) Wonderful moment at a beautiful day with that sky and the warm sunlight.
Excellent shot, thanks
SAbine - wishnugaruda

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  • tinman Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 242 W: 7 N: 458] (2663)
  • [2006-02-15 12:48]

excellent as always, great pose too. sorry no time at present with work, but will make more effort to crit better soon again. Tim

Hi Gert!
Excellent photo! Beautiful colors and perfect details. Great composition! Perfect DOF!
TFS ;-)
regards
Dorota

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  • wuta Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 856 W: 2 N: 617] (2142)
  • [2006-02-15 14:09]

Hello Gert ,what a compositie from this bird to eet cute , very nice picture good colours and pov ,wel done thanks Teunie .

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  • PerR Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 21 W: 2 N: 16] (99)
  • [2006-02-15 14:33]

Hej Gert.
Just outstanding. Excellent sharpness and colours and light.
Regards
Per

Very nice Gert, Had to stop in for a quick visit..I'm weaning slowly ;-)
What a fantastic pose and POV mf. Very well done.

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2705 W: 74 N: 8864] (30243)
  • [2006-02-15 17:40]

Hi Gert!

One of most interesting poses of these small and cute bird. Great navy blue sky, perfect details and colours. Another amazing capture my friend!

Very good capture Gert,
Good detail, colours and sharpness.
Composition and exposure are good. Good POV and framing.
Thanks for posting, enjoy the rest of the week.

Hi Gert

Looks like you had difficult light for this shot, but you managed it very well. Lovely closeup of the Redpoll. Love the pose. A very adept acrobat. TFS.

Wow what a acrobatic shot.
excellent composition,sharpness and pov
regards
goutham

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  • Luis52 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1110 W: 5 N: 3457] (12761)
  • [2006-02-16 16:53]

Geret.- Tu foto esta exelente, los contrastes y el color azul del cielo hacen muy buena combinacion.Luis52

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  • EOSF1 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1381 W: 126 N: 5246] (23469)
  • [2006-02-17 11:56]

Stunning Redpoll, a true beauty. You just did a perfect shot again. Thanks,

Mario

Excellent shot, great sharpness and pose, like the contrast in colors between bird and background.

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