In the spirit of Featherdale....

[snappd]

Hey all,
I've been looking at all your lovely wildlife pics from Featherdale, so I thought for my first ever photo post I will stick with the theme....this little guy was taken in Mark & Michaels backyard at O'Reilly's


This lovely little fella resides at Fleays Fauna reserve on the Gold Coast....


Please feel free to pick them to bits....I am only relatively new to the DSLR world, have had my 400D for about 18 months & I'm really loving it!

[snappd]

Wow....Tough crowd! Ok maybe "pick them to bits" was a bit harsh.....at least some C & C would be nice?

After looking at them on my monitor at work the finch seems a little fuzzy & bit underexposed & the water dragon looks to have some blue tinge towards the back.....neither of these things are evident on the laptop which is where they were posted from.

[Bluebell]

Missed these earlier, so I'm glad you bumped 'em up again.
Neither of them look under exposed to me.
As you said the Finch is a tiny bit fuzzy at the beak end, but these little guys are hard to catch as they never sit still.
Would be nice to catch to him in a tree perhaps, for a more interesting background.
I like the Eastern Water Dragon, and its fortunate you managed to catch his lovely breeding colours.
These dragons are so well camouflaged it's important to separate them from their background, and you've done that well here.
Looking forward to seeing some more.

[paulmac]

G'day Snappd.

I missed these too... They're nice pics you've taken.

The ground surface of the finch picture shows why the bird's head is slightly out of focus. It looks to my amateur eye that your focal point landed just short of the finch. I can't imagine him having taken one hop to his right just before the shutter released, so I'm wondering if an expert or two can tell me what may have happened there..?

170mm, f5.6, 1/200 sec according to the exif... How far away from him were you?

[snappd]

Thanks Bluebell & Paul for your comments,

I think from memory I was about 4-5 metres away, they are so tiny.....also I did clone a piece of hair or fine grass that was sticking out from above his beak which could account for some of the fuzziness...but I did not touch his head at all.....maybe he just moved it

It certainly looks fuzzy though compared to the full size pic which at the moment is wallpaper on my laptop & looks pin sharp.......I thought maybe something happened during resize & upload to photobucket.....or do laptops lie?????

Snappd