Siskin

[William Dickson]

Canon 5D Mk iii
Canon f/2.8 300mm with 2x iii
f/5.6
1/1000
ISO 1000


Thanks for having a look, any advice greatly appreciated

[gail bisson]

Hi William,
Good BG, nice simple perch and pleasing preening pose.Love the puffed up chest.
I would like to see more room all around the bird and would increase the exposure or brightness, as the image appears a tad dark to me,
Gail

[Arthur Morris]

Sharp with a nice look at the feet and the breast. A bit lighter would be fine with me. It would have been nice if the bird were preening the feathers on the right side of its breast rather than those on the left side of the breast--that would have yielded a better head angle.

Was this created at a set-up? Is the perch wire or a plain thin branch? Hard to tell.

[Ian Wilson]

Hi William, You have captured nice feather detail here so I think there is plenty of scope to give the bird a bit more space as Gail suggests. Cheers, Ian

[William Dickson]

Thanks for the advice guys.

This wasn't a set up Artie, I was walking along a river bank, looking for Dipper at Cairngorm, Scotland, when I noticed him perched on a wire fence. Handheld.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Lovely perky pose, I would suggest increase exposure just a little.

[vishaljadhav]

Lovely details, the yellow is sweet, BG is wonderful
guess it may look better with a bit more exposure and some space around the bird,

[John Robinson]

I agree a little more space would be good. Nice to see them in breeding attire. We have lost most of ours this last week or so. All gone up to your place !!
JohnR

[William Dickson]

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[Arthur Morris]

You opened up the colors nicely. I'd have masked out the perch to leave it as dark as in the ORIG.