These are great Anthony! Composition and colours, especially the first one, are gorgeous!
They look neither soft nor oof to me!
Very good indeed
Thanks all for your comments
It took me two months of seeing it about before it got in decent light and within a reasonable distance, and I was very fortunate in the setting it chose. Still looking for one a lot sharper mind
Great captures Anthony, but I will agree with you, simply because I see it in a few of mine. And its like why is the post in focus but the bird just looks that tad oof
Yeh! Just like that Anthony.
I like number 2 of the first images. They look fine on my monitor but I am not looking at the original images at full resolution. As a matter of interest, how close were you to the wren? I am on a steep learning curve photographing garden birds using a 400mm with a 30d and I have found you really need to be fairly close. I look upon some of these images with awe.
Very nice set Anthony as you say could be a little sharper but still very good
I found the best time to get Wrens is when the young are just out as they are not as shy and tend to have a look around at the big wide world they also stand out in the open a bit more.
Anthony,
Thanks for the distance detail. I can get a little nearer than that for some of my shots. It's nice to know these are 25% crops (and that would account for the appearance of softness) - although that just makes me feel I have even more to strive for.
Cracking shots. I've been in Wren mode all morning, but they're just playing hard to get today.
Soft and oof,(soof ?) but the best shots of wrens I've managed so far.
.............they look pretty good to me
Thanks Keith
They do look soft n'oof to me, maybe I should have gone to spec savers
But from 25mtrs? Hey!! Thats still good
They're neither soft nor OOF, what I'm sure it is is that you're just not filling the frame enough and you haven't enough pixels per bird left to show the resolution you'd like to. Happens to all of us - all you can do is try to get closer or go see the bank manager.
Great shots would be well proud if they were mine.
I should say so!I've just taken delivery of a 50D today, that might help a tad