American robin

[Ivan Ellison]

One more from my trip over the water.
Cropped to approx. 70% of orig, Few branches cloned out to clear the bg. Sharpened and little tweak to exposure, contrast.
Canon 1DmkIV,
Canon 100-400
1/400
f5.6
ISO 800

[Grace Scalzo]

Absolutely wonderful details on the bird. Even the white fringing of the breast feathers is perfect. Ideally, I wish that the perch wasn't out of focus and so large and the bird was turned the other way on it. (Out of your control, I realize) BG could be smoothed a bit.

[Allen Sparks]

Hi Ivan,
Wonderful details on the bird and the exposure looks great. I like the BG fine but do agree the large oof area of the perch is a bit distracting. Fine image.
Allen

[Karl Egressy]

Nice pose and beautiful background, Ivan.

[Daniel Cadieux]

The Robin itself looks great - good details, perfect head angle. The BG has nice colours. Some blotches from the processing could be smoothed out, especially in upper right corner. I agree with Grace about the perch.

[Ivan Ellison]

Thanks all. I thought the perch was a bit of a mess, unfortunately when it moved to better ones there too were many twigs in the way.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

What a capture, Ivan! The detail is outstanding, exposure spot on, and the complimentary mottled BG is great. Like the top right soft light direction bringing out even more detail. Well done.




Geoffrey

[Diane Miller]

I'm late to this but find it stunning! Beautiful detail, and I don't mind the perch. I'd be tempted to clone out the one twig going out the bottom of the frame, though.

The OOF area on the perch might be mitigated a little with some desaturation of the blues and possibly burn it a little.