backyard jay

[Rene Quenneville]

I was in my blind and I saw him staring at me. I zoomed in and got this pose. The sharpness and the feather details are amazing. This is not a great picture but it is kind of out of the box...

1/350s
f/8
ISO 500
600 mm with sigma 120-300 and 2X converter

[Alfred Forns]

That it is Rene !!!! Do have one suggestion For extreme close ups go tighter The interesting part is the head area

Cropped and tweaked a little You could also clean the branch on the bg

[Julie Kenward]

I would have just cropped a bit off the top to tighten it up a bit but only because I love the depth of detail in all those feathers. Wonderful color on this one - just enough to make it "pop" but not so much that it looks oversaturated. Nice job!