Evening Grosbeak

[Tim Harding]

D7100 300mm F4 w/1.4x TC HH FF
1/320 @f/6.3 Pop-up flash with Rogue Safari extender

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Topaz DeNoise on BG. Nik Detail Extractor layer to bring out detail in white feathers. Linear contrast curves layer.
Lightened eye socket, removed a bit of steeleye and cleaned up seed fragments on the bill. Slight UM.

Suggestions welcome.

[Satish Ranadive]

Superb image of beautiful colors. Very nice pose,nice details,lights and composition. If mine would merge dark strip on left side from BG. I am not sure about horizontal branch at the bottom,
but I could see version without it. Wish image was in 1200 pix.

Regards,
Satish.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Beautiful species, with the male being especially brilliant. I like the side pose and you did a good job with the white feathers on the wing. There is still a bit of steel-eye apparent but else-wise the use of flash was well done. I do detect a few processing artifacts (cloning?) and I wish for more room at right and above. Was this at Algonquin Park?

[Tim Harding]

Thanks for the input Daniel. this was taken at the Algonquin Park visitor centre.

There was a tangle of branches in the top right that I (clumsily) tried to get rid of. I saw the same issue with the crop was well.

[gail bisson]

I like the bird and the IQ of the bird but I do see al ot of cloning artifacts.
Great exposure and good DOF.
I would definitely repost this at 1200 x 900 and tidy up the BG and you would have a lovely image,
gail

[Daniel Cadieux]

Thanks for the additional info Tim. I was there a few weeks ago, quite a sight seeing all those grosbeaks there!

[Karl Egressy]

Nice pose, details and good IQ, Tim. I wish fro more room around the bird.

[Tim Harding]

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[Tim Harding]

Hordes of them! And bluejays too.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Tim,

I wish I could see these guys on my side of town. You and Daniel have both done a great job of showing them off for the BPN community.

I would like to see a bit more room all around, especially on the top and right. For your next outing, I might try moving around just a bit to see if you can get a bit of a cleaner background.

Miguel

[Holger Leyrer]

What for a beautiful bird. Like the pose, colors and perch. HG-color fits very good to the bird. Well done, Tim.