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Description
These gregarious little honey-eaters are found in most places around Australia, but always near water. You can hear them before you see them. A funny little, high-pitched “…it a brick”. These two (sexes are similar, so no idea if they are a pair) had come down to ground to feed on a damaged white ant nest.
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Technical Details
ISO 3200 150-600@600mm HH f 6.3 1/800 Late in the afternoon.
Basic adjustments in ACR, with linear and radial gradients applied with subject masking.
Image cropped from horizontal to vertical. A slice of extended canvas added to the top for composition.
I liked the twigs on the left-hand side, but changing the composition from horizontal to vertical meant I would lose a lot of them. The twigs on the left have been marqueed - Edit-Transform-Distort. Do they look like they’ve been squished?
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Glenys: I’m not a bird guy but this caught my eye. Marvelous color palette and the processing softening the supportive elements is very nicely done. The posture and position of the birds are perfect. Wonderful find and a superb capture. >=))>
Sweet little birds with very nice poses in a lovely setting!! They are nicely detailed and the perch and BG are wonderful! I like the twigs on the left, too, and they don’t look squished at all. Back in the day there was a menu item to remove an empty space between two objects and move them closer, but I haven’t tried to do it lately and can’t find it in the menus. Probably supplanted by some of this new trickery.
The twigs look fine, Glennie. I like the way they frame the birds. I had to double check the name of these birds as those beaks don’t look like typical honeyeaters and I don’t see any white plumes. The names they give birds!
The composition of the two birds together, both with great eye contact works really well.
Glenys, this is lovely. Getting both heads/eyes in the same focus plane is so nice here. I also really like the pastel background which nicely blends with the pastel birds. Well done. The transform/distort isn’t noticeable to me at all.
Glennie, this is gorgeous! Tack-sharp, perfect “fore and aft” poses- my favorites- and great perch. Exquisite lighting as well. I’m not sure the right OOF stuff adds anything, though, and might be better gone.thanks for all these wonderful Aussie bird and animal images!
Hi Glenys, love the soft color palette and tones. Two wonderful poses from the birds. Twigs on both sides look good to me and balance each other out. Nice sharpness on the birds too. Well done.
A beautiful image, Glenys. Soft dreamy background seems perfect for this pair. I don’;t get a squashed fee for the twigs on the left side. I think the right side OOFf twigs could be removed.
