Canon A2E, 400 5.6, 1.4 tele provia 100 pushed 2 stops

-- steven sisti (stevesisti@aol.com), June 24, 2000

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Interesting photo. I think that as a portrait, this is defeated by the out of focus (and in focus) leaves that obscure the birds face. This is one case, where I would have either tried for a different angle or lost the teleconverter and backed off a bit. The intruding foliage might not be quite as distracting if you were simply depicting an animal interacting with its environment, rather than a frame filling portrait.

-- Mark Castiglia (markus777@earthlink.net), June 26, 2000.

Mark makes some very good points - in fact the same ones that came to my mind when I first looked at this image. But the more I looked at it the more I liked it and the more I found the out of focus grass GOOD instead of BAD. To me you've succeeded in getting in close for a portrait and you have the important features for the portrait, but you've also been able to include the environment. The more I look, the more I like. Rod

-- Rod Sorensen (sorenser@mfldclin.edu), June 26, 2000.

I agree with Rod; this photo works for me and I am impressed with the quality in the face of the film speed and lens type plus converter

-- joseph motto (jjmotto2@execpc.com), June 27, 2000.