I believe you have captured a little chipping sparrow. Similarly there are the tree sparrows (but they are here in the winter and known as the "winter chippy" . : ) Love his entanglement with the fence. Well done !
I love how you caught him from behind - and his little claw:-) So, I looked at your settings to see how you got the background nice and warm like that. Was the background originally much more in focus and you processed it this way or did you capture it just the way it is? (Thanks for considering a tiny lesson for me...)
@lubybee Luretta, thanks for the question. If I remember correctly, I set the aperature so that it was most open, but then had the shutter speed high--that allows for light in but not long, so the background is less in focus and the subject is. Otherwise, it was set on auto, which I did do at one point in my walk to see if I could capture a bird in flight. I'm pretty sure this was not that moment. I find that the aperture determines the background more than anything--of course, ISO factors in. I really don't understand shutterspeed much YET, but I'm working on it. One thing to practice is to set up a fixed subject (a bird is not a good choice, darned quick movers), but maybe a flower. Change your settings (aperature, ISO, shutterspeed) to see how the background and subject change. That was my best thing to learn. Is this helpful? I'm seriously not one for good advice, but I can tell you what my process has been! :)
@lubybee and I can't spell aperture--I always want an "a" in there. Go figure, I'm an English teacher. Oh, and also, I wanted to let you know that I set it on auto focus, so that was the result of the bird miraculously being pretty much in focus!
