Eastern Phoebe

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image at Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED, image captured at 400mm
1/2000 F/7.1 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 1400 Auto 1 WB, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2019 and Neat Image for noise reduction
Cropped for composition and presentation

[John Mack]

Nice diaganol perch. The framing is nice with plenty of room for the bird to look into. Light sure is nice. Great background as well.

[dankearl]

Lovely BG and detail on the bird.
Comp is fine, if you can go tighter, that would look good.

[Dorian Anderson]

Pretty lighting and excellent composition. I wold not crop tighter for 3 reasons: 1) bird isn't razor sharp as is and the IQ will break down as you go in tighter 2) the background is beautiful - show it off! 3) going in more doesn't change contribution of the completely uniform perch. Some will crop into get rid of a distracting branch (rather than cheat and clone it out), but you don't gain anything compositionally from a eliminating either end of the perch (particularly the lower end which is in very good focus).

[gail bisson]

Love the light and the BG.
I always like a diagonal perch.
Bird is sharp but not tack sharp so agree with Dorian here!
Gail

[Bob Smith]

Beautiful combination and presentation of colours , from subject to perch to BG. A very stylish image Joe.