Shot through my back window with full optical zoom, telephoto adaptor and the touch of digital zoom that dropping to 3mp gives me. This is still a 1:1 crop to get the subject to fill the frame!
Levels adjustment and slight curves adjustment then USM. Yes it's noisy :-/
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This is really really grainy. I think you blurred the background nicely, however, the focus on the bird is really soft as well. Either that, or the grain has taken over and is effecting quality of the image rather than adding anything to it. It's a nice angle on the bird, and I like how you caught him with something in his mouth.
This isn't a bad shot in terms of composition, but it suffers from very poor picture quality from cropping it too much or high ISO. Its noisy and grainy and not terribly sharp. Its a shame because I like the composition.
I have a book on British Bird Photography. It had Twiggy, Julie Christie, Mary Quant, Hayley Mills and a variety of other long-legged Birds of Britain. Unfortunately, I suppose this also qualifies as a British Bird.
Some of the colors here are extremely dull. It looks to me like you cropped quite a bit because there is so much grain. The bird just kind of melts right into the background... it would have been nice if he popped a little. Not extremely interesting, but it fits the theme, and a good catch.
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