Some little birds

birdbonkers84 · Apr 16, 2018

1. Male Chaffinch

Male Chaffinch by Mark Coull, on Flickr

2.

Male Chaffinch by Mark Coull, on Flickr

3. Blue tit

Wee blue tit by Mark Coull, on Flickr

4.

Wee blue tit by Mark Coull, on Flickr

working on my small bird photography at the weekend, pretty pleased with these, hopefully I can continue improving throughout the year.

Jeff15 · Apr 16, 2018

Nice set................

Fujidave · Apr 16, 2018

I`d be pleased too if they were mine. You have got some very good details in each shot, plus the eyes are nice and sharp with a catch light too.

birdbonkers84 · Apr 16, 2018

Fujidave said:
I`d be pleased too if they were mine. You have got some very good details in each shot, plus the eyes are nice and sharp with a catch light too.

Thanks for the comment,

My next quest is how much do you crop in by? Probably why I take more birds in flight, I find with small bird shots like this I never know how much to crop. Especially for no.4 I feel I could probably of gone in a bit tighter so there is more focus on the bird and less twig distractions.

birdbonkers84 · Apr 16, 2018

Jeff15 said:
Nice set................

Thanks,

I've got more, but my flickr was playing up last night so couldn't upload them.

Jeff G · Apr 16, 2018

Mark, really nice and crisp!

baturn · Apr 16, 2018

Very nice set! As far as cropping goes, I'm kind of a fill the frame guy. I would turn these to portrait orientation, maybe 4X5 and crop away.

birdbonkers84 · Apr 16, 2018

baturn said:
Very nice set! As far as cropping goes, I'm kind of a fill the frame guy. I would turn these to portrait orientation, maybe 4X5 and crop away.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind!