American Goldfinch

[Terry Olmsted]

Woodway, Washington in late afternoon - lighting was a challenge
5-15-08 Canon 400D 400 5.6L 1.1600s f5.6 ISO 800 partial metering ec0

[Arsdel Fluesmeier]

very nice Terry. Good detail.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Nice eye contact and head angle. The light angle is not ideal and it looks rather noisy on my monitor and the chest plumage looks overexposed. I would give it a bit more space all around.