Singing Robin

a fine happy robin image paul...lovely...many thanks...

Are these experiments with various settings paying off Paul? It certainly looks like it to me - this is a really good shot given the overcast day and surrounding vegetation!

A beautiful close up of this sweet Robin Paul and so nicely captured guy!

Such a charming robin portrait, Paul.

Soft and so pretty. Excellent.

Deb Burhinus said:

Are these experiments with various settings paying off Paul? It certainly looks like it to me - this is a really good shot given the overcast day and surrounding vegetation!

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To an extent, Deb. I'm getting a better handle on what settings I need to take a nice picture of the bird, but for me everything else in the picture is almost as important. I have that awful white background and, as a result, I wouldn't have posted it had it been any other bird with the exception of maybe a golden eagle turning up giving a kestrel a lift on its back. They were pretty tricky lighting conditions for a beginner so I think I've done alright there, but the background hugely lets it down and I've spent the last couple of hours looking around Affinity tutorials in how to change that: Christ, can those IT people say next to nothing in half an hour and what they do say is beyond intelligible. For a discipline that is meant to be grounded in logic it's like a different language and seems stunted in the sense that nothing follows.

Beautiful Image Paul, Well Done Tfs!!!!
All The Best
Sue & Simon,