spotted flycatcher

[Davidwilliams]

Taken in the rain, and a big crop so a bit noisy even after noise reduction in lightroom

600mm
f5.6
1/400
iso 1000

Hope i have got the size ok this time:S3:

http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv112/dratsea/74751483.jpg

[Daniel Cadieux]

Neat subject, and great to have a bonus meal in the bill. I like photographing in rainy weather for different types of mood, and you got that rainy mood nicely here. Body and head angles of the bird are not ideal though, would have been much more engaging angled towards us instead. Although LR has a good NR algorithm from version 3 onwards, a program like PS is very useful to mask subject and perch to apply more agressive NR to the BG via a plug-in (lots of good ones out there).

P.S. Size is OK pixel-lenght wise, but the image needs to be maximum 250kb.