Harbinger of Spring

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Harbinger of Spring
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Copyright: Art Roberts (Art_R) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 164 W: 13 N: 389] (1537)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-05-07
Categories: Birds
Camera: Nikon D 80, AF VR-Nikkor 80-400mm ED, 77mm UV
Exposure: f/6.3, 1/320 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-05-10 4:42
Viewed: 322
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Hi Folks , for today I decided on something nice and simple , the American Robin. Considered a Harbinger of Spring , they are a welcome sight. no where near my first robin of the year , but spring is here and so are the robins...

the old saying 'the early bird gets the worm' did not apply to this Robin , in it's case the brave bird got it :-) when I spotted two robins and came in a bit closer one left and this braver one stayed , in fact surprised me by walking straight at me , turned out that there was an unearthed worm at stake and this one was willing to risk it . in this shot it had paused , deciding if I was a danger or not.

my PP on this one again was kept to simple , small color correction to make it look natural , plus two stages of noise reduction , careful to the bird , and harder on the background. I am sure most people already know that grass can be hard to compress and tends to force us to reduce picture quality to meet the 200 mb limit . noise can also have the same effect , not only is it unsightly but it also gets viewed by the jpeg compressor as detail , and the compressor attempts to retain that 'detail' driving up the file size.

after selective denoising in photoshop I save the full size file at highest quality setting, then use Faststone image viewer to crop & resize for TN , it has a good set of resizing filters Lanczos3 being its default , as well the saving dialog offers a percentage based quality setting so has 100 increments instead of the rather limited 12 offered by photoshop.

Thanks for stopping in

regards

Art
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  • izler Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1216 W: 78 N: 843] (6904)
  • [2008-05-10 7:35]

hello Art
good capture and eye contact
i like its pose, POV, BG and colours
TFS
regards
izler

what a nice close-up of the pretty robin! :-) i really like the straight-forward pose and the water-drops on the grass, great
details. the early bird gets the robin.*g* well done & best wishes, thor.

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  • Alex99 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2935 W: 142 N: 4217] (13775)
  • [2008-05-10 10:17]

Hi Art.
Terrific close-up. I am impressed with magnification and excellent sharpness/details of the robin image. Superb DOF, nice blurred BG and fie colours. Well done and TFS.
Alexei.

Hi Art, could'nt you get closer!!! It is almost sitting on the lens!!..I like this a lot, the colouration and feather details are excellent, the pose is first class, excellent timing. Good and informative notes as well. TFS

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