Where's Mommy
Sep, 2014Views
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Awards
Winner in Fledgling Birds Photo Challenge
People's Choice in Cute Chickadee Photo Challenge
Superb Composition
Top Choice
Peer Award
Absolute Masterpiece
Magnificent Capture
Superior Skill
Great Find
All Star
Outstanding Creativity
Top Ranks
Top 30 rank week 1
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NatureLoverJJWal
July 31, 2015
Congratulations on your People's Choice Award in Cute Chickadee Photo Challenge!
PRO+
allanbarnett
July 31, 2015
Thank you, I give more credit to the baby bird who could barely fly and just sat there posing for me.
reflectionsbyrenee
July 31, 2015
congrats on your win for peoples choice for the chickadee photo challenge, I was in the competition and saw this, and VOTED FOR YOU> BRAVO I am so happy for you
Platinum
PRO+
allanbarnett
December 27, 2015
Thanks again for your comments! This bird has been a great model to have photographed.
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Behind The Lens
Location
In my back yard here in NE Tennessee. The baby bird first landed on our screen door and got stuck. By the time I got my camera it got loose and flew over to the the near by tree.Time
Early afternoon.Lighting
The day had light clouds, so the light was not harsh.Equipment
Canon 7D, Tamron 28-75mm lens. Hand held at 1/640 sec at f/6.3 with the ISO of 500 to allow fast shutter speed while minimizing noise.Inspiration
The baby North Carolina Chickadee just like to pose for me. I only need my 28-75mm zoom as it allowed me to get some what close.Editing
I use Lightroom to do most of my processing. Choose this frame do to the look on the bird so I needed to crop to balance the image. Also in this case there were lots of bird dropping on the tree that caused distractions, use photoshop to remove the spots. To vignette, I lightly used both exposure & clarity to draw the eyes in to the subject.In my camera bag
Canon 7D, a wide, medium and a long zoom lens (Tamron) and 50, 100 (micro) and 400 prime (Canon). I normally use an Induro CT-314 8X Carbon Tripod and Cokin P series filters for landscape photos.Feedback
Here I got lucky, this bird sat there for me a long time allowing me to move around, taking note what is in the background and experiment with different f/stops for the depth of field. My friends who specialize in bird photos have a setup to draw in the birds, taking effort to watch out what is in the background and making it comfortable to the birds.
