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I shot these over the weekend

Picture 1. I think I need to get my head around getting a correct depth of field as I think the left part of his plumage is soft. The lighting was really hard as he was in the undergrowth when I shot it.



Picture 2. This is just about a full image with minimal amount of cropping. He was just about too close.




Any suggestions on how these could have been better?

gotta get me one of those lenses!!

steve

John,

Any suggestions on how these could have been better?

My suggestion is:

Surrender that lens and geting the 70-300G

Yeah I was thinking of dumping it and going back to the 70-300G as it clearly is not cutting it quality wise. And I know AVKOMP would give me a quick $500 for it too.

Sir Tristram wrote:Yeah I was thinking of dumping it and going back to the 70-300G as it clearly is cutting it quality wise. And I know AVKOMP would give me a quick $500 for it too.

You're spoiled!

Way too true. I might steal the bio of one of the other users " way too much gear, not enough talent"

#2 is amazingly sharp! can i ask what lens you used? love the composition as well.

Thanks for the comment. The lense was a Nikon 300mm AFS-II 2.8

Beautiful stuff, my favourite is the 2nd one, I like the alert look in the birds eye.

Thanks Craig. I think that look should be called the " I mean business" look.

Geez No 2 is probably one of the sharpest images Ive seen on this site. Well done
Jethro

Thanks Jethro.

Lovely lens, will have to get a VR version of that one day

That owl eye is fantastic!

Thanks all for the feedback. Yeah I'd love a VR version but I first have to get those 6 numbers and the supplementary right.