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Postby cc@t on Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:40 pm

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Postby nat on Sun Aug 28, 2005 11:03 am

Hi cc@t
What a poser! I think the front bird new that it was being photographed!
My eyes tend to get drawn away from the front bird and drawn to the ones at the top of the image, which I find a bit distracting. Did you take any with different DOF? I wonder if having the others in slightly sharper focus would help.
(please note that I am a rank amatuer/beginner and may be on the wrong track completely - just my thoughts for what they're worth :? )

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Postby sirhc55 on Sun Aug 28, 2005 11:07 am

cc@t - I agree with Meercat - this is a wonderfully, cheeky looking bird but I would be inclined to clone out all of the other birds to make this little fella the focal point :D
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Postby olrac on Mon Aug 29, 2005 2:20 pm

I think that it need a bit of foreground to center the main subject vertically



maybe a tighter crop would do it..

other than that what a great image of a showoff.....

I never can get birds on the ground that sharp, What lens did you shoot this with?
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Postby cc@t on Mon Aug 29, 2005 4:00 pm

olrac - this was taken using 80 - 200 f/2.8
Thanks for your comments guys
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Postby gstark on Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:54 pm

Who gave that parrot a shiner?

Great capture, but I* agree that it could benefit from some cropping.
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Postby big pix on Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:00 pm

........nice capture of a great Australian native......but you could improve the image by cropping out the bird on the left hand side......
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Postby Slider on Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:30 pm

Like i said before, Nice Shot GG err CC :D
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