Excellent image with sharp details and nice bokeh. The "grain" or whatever doesn't bother me at all, but if it were my image, I might clone out or crop out the little twig over her head.
Most male birds are more garish than the females of the same species. I hardly think the house sparrow is the most outrageous or overdone. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@mac.com> wrote: > With most bird species, the males are most attractive. That’s not true of > our common house sparrow, as the ladies are quite lovely, while the > coloring and marking of the males is garish and borderline ugly. Here’s a > pretty girl in my backyard. I think this might have the best detail of any > of my bird shots. K-1 in crop mode, with the DA F 150-450 and the DA 1.4X > converter. This is close to full frame. Shot from about 20 feet away off a > tripod, while sipping on some good scotch whiskey. > > https://www.photo.net/photo/18354996/female-sparrow > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.