American Robin

[tkerr]

This is one of many I took this morning.

[ddt0725]

[clemmb]

Nice shots Denice. You must be feeding this guy. He looks kinda fat.


Mark

[Fast Glass]

To Mark,


Mabye, but they also like to puff there feathers so it's kinda hard to tell.


To Denise,


Nice shots Denise. I like the last one the best, it has the cleanest background and I like the composition.


To tkerr,


I think its a nice shot but there are a couple things that definitely could be improved;


It's very noisy! Try using a good noise reduction software, there are lots of full featured trials on the web. The best I have used is DxO and there a quite a few here that use it too and like it very much also.


Try to brighten the Robin up a little, especially the underneath him and on the head. Ideally a flash with the better beamerwould be perfectforilluminating the shadows.


Did you shoot RAW, thats very important because in a very noisy picture like that you have a couple more stops of noise reduction headroom than tiff or Jpeg.


If this is cropped try give a litte more room in front of the Robin, if not try cropping it so there is less room behind him. That will give a sense of direction and where he is starring at.


Hope that helps,


John.