Fieldfare

[John Robinson]

Rework from an earlier one.
Nikon D200
80th sec f7.1 (slow speed for snow)
Sigma 100-300 f4.5
80%of full frame.
PSPro7
Bibble Pro
Cheers
JohnR

[Karl Egressy]

Lovely work, nice perch, pose with the berry in the beak and the falling snow completes the winter feel. Nice one, John.

[John Rowell]

I love the combination of blurred snow and the bird with a berry. Terrific eye detail and the yellow highlights on the breast really pull my eye in.

[John Robinson]

Thanks both- Appeciated. IQ down a tad but you takwhat you can get.
Cheers
John

[Randy Stout]

John:

Snow, berries, background, all good. The bird looks just a bit too contrasty for the rest of the scene. Always fun to go back and tweak an older image.

Cheers

Randy

[John Robinson]

Had a play with the contrast on the bird. Thanks for looking.
JohnR

[John Robinson]

And another a bit darker
Cheers
JohnR

[adrian dancy]

A superb winter scene John. I think you may have had some blowout of the whites and attempted to drawback. I think I would just throw caution to the wind and allow blowout to occur so that the whites are not appearing quite so grey.
I bet the average British photographer has more waxwing shots than fieldfare!

[John Robinson]

Absolutely right Adrian. Should have left it and moved on. One of those thatnever seems to come right.
Cheers
John

[Jim Crosswell]

Beautiful setting you captured here John! I like the berries, falling snow and composition.

[Bill Dix]

A lovely snowy scene, beautiful comp. The berries are wonderful and the one in the beak tops it off. Pane #6 looks good to me; fixed what looked to me like a tad of oversharpening in the OP. Pane #7 seems a bit somber.