Where did I put that?

[Ian Cassell]

Verdin

Canon 7D
Canon 500/4 + 1.4X
1/5000 sec f/5.6 ISO 640

Levels, crop for comp, sharpening in CS6

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[Doug West]

This is excellent Ian! I almost love the perch as much as the bird :)

Doug

[Tim Harding]

Excellent detail capture! Interesting pose but with no face it's hard to tell at first what I was looking at - a headless bird?!

[Randall Farhy]

A fun image with nice details-especially like the dandelion seeds around the perch. The hotspot to the right and that stray line to the left could be removed or toned down. There's also a sharpening halo on the right edges of the bird, output sharpening related?

[Ian Cassell]

Thanks, all. Missed that halo, darnit .... came up when I was sharpening for the web and easy to fix.

[Sandy Witvoet]

Cute, FUN.... great techs! ... and "begging" for more captions!:bg3:

[kevin Hice]

Ian really like the composition and the perch but it looks over sharpened a bit. Milkweed seed is interesting.

[Diane Miller]

Different and very nice, but it has an over-sharpened look in the fine feathers. I'd like to see it with a bit more room all around, and with the leaf on the left edge removed.

[Iain Barker]

Hi Ian

A fun image that would be good for a caption contest. I like the detail in the feathers.