Thanks Leon. It's the A 400/5.6 coupled with the A3X-S converter. it doesn't always produce nice bokeh, and I always have to correct some digital fringing (as I did in his pic/ It's a combo that is not recommenced by the High Order of Esteemed Nature Shooters. :-)). Paul On May 5, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Leon Altoff wrote:
> Paul, > > I like the composition of the picture, but I dislike the harshness of > the background. I don't want to start another bokeh discussion, > and it > may just be the very vertical nature of the grass in the > background, but > I think the background ruins an otherwise nice image. > > What lens did you use by the way? > > -- > Leon > > http://www.bluering.org.au > http://www.bluering.org.au/leon > > > Paul Stenquist wrote: >> I'm not sure how I feel about this shot, but it might be a good one >> for my nature center gallery. I passed it up the first time I >> reviewed the day's shooting, but looked at it again today. It's not a >> great bird pic, but it might be a nice nature center shot. What I >> mean by that is that it shows the habitat and IDs the bird. People >> who love the nature center (and it has some rabid fans) might like >> something like this. By the way, an ID on the bird would be nice. >> Save me pulling out my book. And we have so many people here who >> really know birds. I can identify only a handful without a book. >> Anyway, here he is: >> >> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5931913&size=lg >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
