pirate sparrows

What a bold sparrows !
I couldnt focus with my Sigma - had to stand up and step backwards.
And then he came even closer - to eat my cake !!!!


gourmet




final clean up




have you got some more?

Nice photos, very sharp only a bit underexpose it seems although the third one has a good exposure.

Very bold bird indeed, he just wanted on the photo and took some cake as reward of course.
Very common bird but I do really like them.

These made me laugh - good set of pics. The third is especially well-focused.

Nice pics Aiki,good fun,do you always have your camera with you while eating cake?

Great shots. And it looks like the little fellow was hungry as he ate the whole lot

Lovely shots Aiki, you really got the focus spot on.

I would have prefered a shot of the cake

Don, you mean shot at the cake rather than the cake, right?

No, as a baker the cake is more interesting

Thanks for being glad, that my cake was eaten

Avnh,
Underexposed? My screen is not calibrated I have always wondered, how others see my pics. For my eye it seems ok. Maybe its the matter of taste - I do not like blank white on my pic.....

Tony-O,
You have to carry your weapon every moment - as you never know, when pirates attack !!!

Clarky,
Nothing was left


Usually its hard to get birds on the pic, now I was in trouble, as I couldnt get them away

Aiki
One of the most, if not THE most, important things to do when processing images is to calibrate your screen, beit CRT or LCD.
If you are going to do any type of editing you MUST calibrate it. I check mine every week and also if I have a lot of work to do I will check it again.

Once your screen is calibrated you will see the benefit straight away and wonder how you have gone without it being done.

Paul

I do not sell my pics, its just my hobby.
I do not much PP either.(these pics are just resized)
I even do not know how can I calibrate my screen.
You check the screen every week ? I do not PP even every week.
And some weeks pass without pics as well
At the moment I just have a two week vacation, thats why more pics coming. And I have time to take my camera to an outdoor caffee for a cake


It may not be an excuse in your eyes.
Give me an example: take the photo, do the PP-ing to show me how it should look.
If it makes much difference, then maybe I start looking for calibrating possibilities.
Still, I am looking at other photos in the forum as well. And these do not seem overexposured for me....maybe it is too little difference for my eye then?

I am ready to learn.

I would say that it payed well for this little bird to be bold and brazen!~

Aiki

I wasn't having a dig at your images, not at all. All I was merely doing was suggest to you to maybe calibrate your screen as this will definetly help with you images.

You do not have to be a pro to calibrate your screen, it's done so that you can get the best out of your pictures. Have you ever printed an image and it comes out different to what it does on screen? The need for every photographer, from absolute beginner to pro is a must.

You can calibrate your screen in a number of ways, here's a step by step way of doing it and it's free link
Or you can buy a screen calibrator which is by far the best way to do it. It's probably best to try it for free first before spending money, they range from £60-£300 or more.

If you search on the forum for screen calibration you will see tutorials already written and they go into great depth and explain it much better than I can,


So Aiki, I wasn't having a go at your photographs at all, it's not my place to do that. I was just giving my views as I believe that all photographers should do this.

Hope this helps


Paul

Thanks Paul,
I have been thinking of it.
I have postponed the calibration to the moment when I realize that my skills and needs have made a step forward.
Until that moment it has seemed that my screen is almost ok. When I need to make some prints, I do a small one at first, then make corrections etc.

I will show the link to my husband, he is the master of the computer in our family..... Thanks for it !
I AM lazy for looking up such sites myself. Also I cant be sure about the quality of the sites that I find myself - without knowing anything about these. A bit afraid doing the things worse.

As to the sparrows, I think it needs other PP: making darker regions lighter. But not the whole pic. Just a bit.