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Lately I have had a bunch of what I thought were frazzled looking Lorikeets ruining my lawn (Michael kindly tells me it is a Red Rumped Parrot).

The good thing is that they are so intent on runing my lawn they let you get close up to take their photo.......

Note to self, don't photograph green birds on green grass.

Comments and suggestions welcome....

Hi smac,

Your feathered friend is a Red-rumped Parrot (for the record).

Cheers

Michael

Nice shot.
I think that you could extend that note to self to 'don't photograph any bird on green grass'. It seems impossible to get any separation.

Have you got any tips Michael?? I have some resident Kookas that sit on the fence or stand on the grass and neither setting looks much good

Take 2 cloves of garlic and a sprig of fennel

Hi Steve (see previous post)

Unfortunately, unless you want to have a fence post or railing in your photo, there isn't much you can do but wait until the Kooka lands in a nearby tree (or similar background). You could also use a telephoto or zoom and do a close-up shot of head/face. Depending on where the bird is sitting, I would position myself so that the background looks natural. You could also open the aperture wide and blur the background out.

Hope this helps

Cheers

Michael

Thanks Matt, but I couldn't find any reference to your suggestion in Photoshop CS......

Matt, Dill is much more subtle than fennel

Michael, maybe I need to break out the Bigma and go for the head shot.

Only a subtle change Stuart, however I found the original a little bleak...what I have done is increased contrast and put a tiny but of gaussian blur on the image. I think this version emphasizes the bird more, in the first one, it seemed to blend into the grass a little more than it could. Cheers.

Nice shot. Very pretty colours. Would be fantastic with a dark background