Thursday, April 06, 2006
Chaffinch
A part of my ongoing garden bird project. This is a full frame print from an E1. Some of the blur is heavy rain, but, obviously, movement causes much of it.
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Scanning the print of a digital image is an interesting idea and I would like to see the original digital conversion. One certainly gets the feel of a print from this and it enhances the effects you were after.
Technically this is very good: the negative space, blur, tones and detail combine well to convey the subject. Artistically, it is good too although it does keep coming to me that this bird is lying on its back dead: it is the angle of the feet and the way that they are held. Maybe, also, because one can't see the head, so it is disembodied.
'Ojala', the security zone around Cellardyke will work.
like it very much for its abstract and transparence appearance. have to call all my power of imagination to identify a bird. ... ah yes now! *lol* it took a while... anyway love it.
This is an interesting and different picture. I get the feeling that the bird is trying to go through a window. The claws are the only thing that are 'real' but there is a great sense of movement and, to me, panic.
Chaffinches can be quite scary when seen very close up. They may feature here from time to time.
The bird was coming into land on a feeder - something it probably does 100 times a day. At peak hours this feeder has a new bird arriving every few seconds. Slow ones get pushed off before eating....
On this day the birds habitutated to the camera sitting on the food, but not the noise of the mirror and shutter. So, yes, this bird was probably panicked slightly as this was the second shot. It is backing away.
I wondered if anybody would see it as a static/dead bird. I can't see it like that because I have the blur and whirr of the movement firmly in my head, but when I picked the print off the printer I did, briefly, see it as static.
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Technically this is very good: the negative space, blur, tones and detail combine well to convey the subject. Artistically, it is good too although it does keep coming to me that this bird is lying on its back dead: it is the angle of the feet and the way that they are held. Maybe, also, because one can't see the head, so it is disembodied.
'Ojala', the security zone around Cellardyke will work.
The bird was coming into land on a feeder - something it probably does 100 times a day. At peak hours this feeder has a new bird arriving every few seconds. Slow ones get pushed off before eating....
On this day the birds habitutated to the camera sitting on the food, but not the noise of the mirror and shutter. So, yes, this bird was probably panicked slightly as this was the second shot. It is backing away.
I wondered if anybody would see it as a static/dead bird. I can't see it like that because I have the blur and whirr of the movement firmly in my head, but when I picked the print off the printer I did, briefly, see it as static.