Tender Family Scene

saurora

This past week has brought an abundance of baby birds ready to leave their nests in my neighborhood. I captured this little fledgling and his parent huddling in a tree. The other parent was a few feet away keeping guard while resting on a street sign. They one by one reunited in another tree across the street further away from the nasty black camera. DOF is a little too shallow....one of these days I'll get it.

riddim_maker

"Tender Family Scene"???
I was expecting a family portrait with you, the hubby and the kids ,
but i guess this is an acceptable stand-in
BTW, very sweet and tender capture. Your timing seems right on

ShepsMom

What cuties!! I think your dof is good, but a little bright! Well done

Harryb

Very nice capture, the background is perfect for the shot.

bfjr

Harryb wrote:

Very nice capture, the background is perfect for the shot.

and maybe a little fill flash would of helped

saurora

riddim_maker wrote:

I was expecting a family portrait with you, the hubby and the kids ,
but i guess this is an acceptable stand-in
BTW, very sweet and tender capture. Your timing seems right on

Thanks Russ, and I really did think this was a tender family scene!!!

Art Scott

I like the bright background.....and I think the shot is absolutely perfect....guess that means I am agreeing with Harry thumbthumbthumbbowbow and yes the dof is perfect also.

saurora

ShepsMom wrote:

What cuties!! I think your dof is good, but a little bright! Well done

Thanks Marina. Well, it was midday, and bright open shade and I was pointing up towards the sky, so the shot is bright, but it is one thing I like about it. I guess one could control that more in processing or by using fill flash, (didn't have time for that!). Thanks for commenting.

Dick on Aruba

Very beautiful. Frame it!

Thanks for sharing,

Dick.

saurora

Thanks for the nice comment Harry!

annaelycm

Absolutely wonderful. I think the DOF of field is perfect and the brighter backrground really lets the little birds POP out of the picture. VERY frame worthy!!!

saurora

bfjr wrote:

and maybe a little fill flash would of helped

Thanks Ben!

saurora

Art Scott wrote:

I like the bright background.....and I think the shot is absolutely perfect....guess that means I am agreeing with Harry thumbthumbthumbbowbow and yes the dof is perfect also.

Thanks alot Art! I'm pretty pleased with it. It also was the first time I've been able to approach a bird that close with only the 200. Usually I'm shooting from my car!!!

Harv

Excellent capture. I like it a lot. It's always fun to get the fledglings with mom or dad.

gfxartist

What a sweet photo. I sometimes try taking photos out on the back deck, but they fear the big black camera (or me ) and fly off to perch somewhere too far for a good shot. So I can appreciate your great capture!

Netgarden

Hi Susan, I live near you!
I love the pic and the exposure too. sweet...

Skippy

saurora wrote:

This past week has brought an abundance of baby birds ready to leave their nests in my neighborhood. I captured this little fledgling and his parent huddling in a tree. The other parent was a few feet away keeping guard while resting on a street sign. They one by one reunited in another tree across the street further away from the nasty black camera. DOF is a little too shallow....one of these days I'll get it.

Lovely shot Susan, love the background too ... Skippy
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Maestro

Quite a nice shot and for being during the middle of the day, you handled the brignt ambient light quite well.

raptorcaptor

Nice capture Susan! I think those are black phoebe chicks!

saurora

raptorcaptor wrote:

Nice capture Susan! I think those are black phoebe chicks!

Thanks Glenn and everyone else. Yes, I forgot to mention that they were Phoebe's, although I thought one was an adult and one a fledgling, judging by the tailfeathers.