jaycobar-chay

They blow everything behind the focus point into a complete blur of color.

I'm no pro, but I took a picture of a bluebird the other day (its in my portfolio) that turned out better with some work on saturation. I only say this because the blue seems a little lighter in color than what I came up with in my photo.

I don't know if this will work, but I'll try to include a link to the critique request that also includes the original as a frame of reference.

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?topic_id=1481&msg_id=00BzuK&photo_id=3315945&photo_sel_index=0

He's almost two years old. This is the first time since I've had

him I've sat him down in front of a camera for serious portraiture.

This is a crop of an image taken with my 10D and Tamron 100mm Macro.

I wanted to put it in the landscape category because the reflection

in the eye looks like what the backyard would look like through a

16mm or something weird like that, but I figure it really belongs in

the macro category.

Like it?

Here's the original (I think...) I'm having trouble adding the photo to the thread.

You can see how I cropped it and enhanced the saturation, as this one looks flat and washed out.

This is a shot from my first foray into bird photography. I think

it looks alright, but I was so excited about catching the moment I

didn't think much about composition or how to improve it...