Chaffinch

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• star74 (2474)
• [2007-03-27 3:26]
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Hi Deborah,
You have presented a great shot of this Chaffinch.
Nice vivid colors,sharpness and details.
Well done.

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• elefantino (14381)
• [2007-03-27 3:52]

Nice shot of this colorfull bird.
Andrea

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• Captive_Light (0)
• [2007-03-27 4:03]
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It's interesting to see that your chaffinches also have the viral growths on their legs. It seems to be getting more and more common, and I've seen chaffinches down here that barely use their swollen legs anymore.

Photographically... might have been better with light on the bird and background being more equal.... or "cheat" and tone the background down in PS (!). Also the image could do with being a little sharper, to me it looks just a little soft. Have you found "High Pass Sharpening" yet? It's quite good for sharpening textures like feathers and bark, I tend to use it a lot.

Also, I usually re-sharpen again a little after I resize the image down to 800pix, as resizing seems to soften things a little.

Have a look her for High Pass Technique. http://www.ephotozine.com/techniques/viewtechnique.cfm?recid=355

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• bullybeef53 (791)
• [2007-03-27 5:30]

Deborah,
Your photo is colorful,sharp and well framed.
Great shot!
Jim

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• Raptorman (9707)
• [2007-03-27 7:51]
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Hello Deborah , good colors and shrpnss of chaffinch , but I am sorry for legs maybe an infectious disaese.

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• GLEM (6119)
• [2007-03-27 8:22]

hi Deborah,

belle image, la position de l'oiseau est idéal pour en voir le plus possible. Bonnes couleurs, seul la DOF est légèrement améliorable.

tfs

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• mogens-j (20)
• [2007-03-27 10:41]

Hello Deborah

Lovely picture with wonderful and natural looking colours. Very good sharpness/dof setting off the Chaffinch nicely with nice details and a well blurred background. Great composition with a strong diagonal line made by the branch. All over a very nice picture - well done.

Regards
Mogens

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• pankajbajpai (16507)
• [2007-03-27 10:51]

hello deborah,
nice shot, well captured, liked the composition & the colours, nice pov, good dof resulting in fine blurry bg,what happened to her legs ?
well done,
tfs & regards
pankaj

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• Basher24 (229)
• [2007-03-27 11:11]

Hello Deborah,

This is a well seen and composed shot of the finch. It is a handsom bird and you captured it well. However I might have moved the colour balance toward warmed tones but other then that well done.

Craig

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• jaycee (21912)
• [2007-03-27 11:50]

Hi Deborah,

This is a beautiful capture of the Chaffinch. Wish we had birds that looked like that here. The colors are magnificent, nice sharp details, lovely pose and a good BG.

Jane

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• Jamesp (16524)
• [2007-03-27 12:44]

Hi Deborah

Lovely POV here and the blurred BG makes the bird stand out well.

TFS
James

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• marmottelolo (14691)
• [2007-03-27 14:15]
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salut deborah
un petit peu trop de saturation je pense mais bonne netteté sur l'oiseau,le BG n'est pas tres flou mais coloré.
je trouve les patte de cette oiseau bizard,est ce de la grace?
laurent

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• nglen (32250)
• [2007-03-27 15:17]

Hi Debz. Great shot of the Chaffinch.lots of colour and detail. good compostion. a lot of the chaffinches in this area have a foot problem. good notes,TFS. well done..

Nick

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• Silvio2006 (41532)
• [2007-03-27 16:03]

Hi Debz, lovely bird with splendid colors, great details, wonderful blurry BG, very well done, ciao Silvio

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• Luis52 (12761)
• [2007-03-27 19:24]
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Hola Debroah.- Una especie de ave nueva para mi, me agradan los diferentes colores de su plumaje. Muy nitida.
Luis52.

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• manyee (21070)
• [2007-03-28 1:38]

What a beauty, Deborah.
The colors and markings are beautiful.
The light and the sharpness are excellent.
I really like his pose on the tree, standing in the lovely light.
TFS. : )

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• jeanpaul (14117)
• [2007-03-28 11:43]

Hello Déborah

Superbe composition tout s'hamonise bien, le BG, l'oiseau et la roche ou il est posé. Les couleurs et la netteté sont aussi parfaites.

Félicitation et bonne journée...JP

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• Argus (35107)
• [2007-03-28 12:59]
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Hello Debz,
At all times except the winter, Chaffinches are common in Sweden, but I still can't get a good shot of one: not as good as this one! This has good colouring, is pretty sharp, presented in an excellent composition with pleasing blurred BG, but the only nit is the strange foot: I can't make it out!
TFS and best wishes, Ivan

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• chiliu (6494)
• [2007-03-28 15:27]

Beautiful bird very nicely captured!

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• stevkds (1789)
• [2007-03-28 16:17]

Very pretty shot Deb. Excellent coloured presentation. Picture is good arrected. Well done. tfs. Stev

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• scottevers7 (12267)
• [2007-03-28 17:22]
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Hi Deborah,
I think compositionally you have done an excellent job. placement of the bird and branch within the frame are well done. The light quality is soft, and your exposure looks very good. Colors across the tonal range a perfect. I agree with Miles it could be a tad sharper. Probably f8 or f11 would have been better, but this would have forced a very slow shutter speed or a boost in ISO sending the noise way up. I think you did a very good job on this little beauty under the circumstances you had at the time.
Scott

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• ramthakur (32178)
• [2007-03-30 6:05]
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Hello Deborah,
You seem to have rock-steady hands to capture this amazingly sharp image of a Chaffinch posing with its best foot forward (literally) on the slanting branch of a tree :-).
The perspective offers a fine view of its richly coloured plumage.
The colourful bokeh BG is another strong feature of this well-handled shot.
Best regards,
Ram

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• Biswarup (2779)
• [2007-03-31 3:56]

Hi Deborah,
Nice shot indeed of this Chaffinch.
Nice details
Well done.

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• claudine (0)
• [2007-03-31 10:57]

Hello Deborah,
This is a fine bird that you captured very well! I like those colors, composition, details and exposure a lot. Well done in a nice environment. TFS,
Claudine

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• horia (14904)
• [2007-04-02 9:06]

Hi Deborah

Another very beautiful capture from you!
The diagonal composition here is really wonderful and it presents the entire body of this little caffinch is full focus.
Due to that, all the details are very clear and sharp.
The DOF is excellent and it blurres the BG well, the exposure is nicely managed and it gives you a good saturation for all the colors and tones and the POV is exceptional.

Bravo and TFS
Horia

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• hester (11638)
• [2007-04-02 14:53]

Hi Deborah

Nice Chaffinch shot, they are pretty birds. Excellent POV, nice pose and good DOF. Great colours

TFS

Karan

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• Tamrock (3133)
• [2007-05-31 17:38]

hi deborah!
i like this very fine bird and
you shows him in a very nice way!
sharp with good composition!