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Redpoll (Cardelius flammea)

This one is feeding on the 'conifers' of an alder (Alnus glutinosa).

Cheers, Jens.

Photographer:	X Jens Birch
Folder:	Jens' Wildlife
Uploaded:	27-Nov-2005 17:49 CET
Current Rating:	9.00/5 View all ratings Delete my rating
Sharing:	1 time(s).
Model release available:
Camera:	Olympus E1
Exposure time:	1/1000 s
Aperture:	f/4.0
Focal length:	300mm(600mm)
Lens:	Tokina AT-X 300/2.8
Focusing method:	Manual
ISO:	400
White balance:	Auto
Flash:	no
Image format:	SHQ
Processing applied:
Various:
Image resized to:	675x900

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Redpoll

Nice,
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Sergey Green at 18:21 CET on 27-Nov-2005 [Reply]

Nice

The light and composition make this a wining combination...thanks for sharing with us this beautifull image

Ehtasham ul haq at 18:54 CET on 27-Nov-2005 [Reply]

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Very nice. Good detail in the feathers with a nice bright eye.

Ann Smith at 19:41 CET on 27-Nov-2005 [Reply]

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Jens, This is a very nice picture. I like the composition.
Lee

Lee W at 23:38 CET on 27-Nov-2005 [Reply]

Thanks

Sergey, Ehtasham, Ann, and Lee,

I am glad you all appreciate the image.

Cheers, Jens

Jens Birch at 10:21 CET on 28-Nov-2005 [Reply]

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Great shot !
Dirk

Dirk Guttmann at 09:11 CET on 30-Nov-2005 [Reply]

DOF and WB

Hi Jens,

a couple of comments from my side:

1. There seems to be a red or pink colour cast.
2. DOF is very, very shallow and when I first had a look I thought that the bird was not in focus. Actually it is in focus, but only parts of it. Maybe it would have helped using a smaller aperture - with the E1 you can go down to F22 if I'm not mistaken.

Alfred Molon at 13:37 CET on 03-Dec-2005 [Reply]

Hi Alfred,

thanks for your comments.

> 1. There seems to be a red or pink colour cast.

Is it the red tone in the upper part of the background that you think of? I think it is due to the out-of-focus branches of the tree. The lower part, where you can see the cloudy sky don't show any red bias to my eyes. So I think the general colour balance is OK. The picture was taken with a pretty low sun so the general light on the bird should be a bit redish. So, all in all, I 't think the WB is OK.

> 2. DOF is very, very shallow and when I first had a look I thought that the bird was not in
> focus. Actually it is in focus, but only parts of it. Maybe it would have helped using a smaller
> aperture - with the E1 you can go down to F22 if I'm not mistaken.

Alfred, the aperture f/4 was carefully selected. The aperture choice is dictated by a trade-off between three factors:
1) DOF: Smaller aperture -> deeper DOF.
2) Avoiding camera shake: Larger aperture -> faster exposure time.
3) Sharpness of the lens: Largest aperure -> some softness AND smallest aperture -> some softness.
In this case the largest possible aperture, that would give an exposure time allowing me to handhold the 300 mm lens (600 mm equivalent), was chosen.

BTW, the smallest aperture is independent of the camera body and is IMHO of academic interest. (FWIW, this lens can go down to f/32).

Cheers, Jens.

Jens Birch at 09:00 CET on 04-Dec-2005 [Reply]