Australia: Star Finch

[Jim Neiger]

http://www.flightschoolphotography.com/POST/SF17.jpg
Western Australian Outback - 1D3, 500mm+2xTC, hand held, 1/400, F8, ISO 800, manual exposure

This is another rarely seen Australian bird.

[Keith Carver]

Love the pose, perch and BG, Jim. Amazingly sharp considering a hand-held 500 mm x 2.0 TC shot - you have steady hands! Maybe the bottom of the perch could be burned in just a little...

[Lorant Voros]

Beautiful bird...unknown for me. Like the pose and colors....love the BG...is it natural? I find the image pretty noisy though. Did you compensate the exposure in ACR to the right?

[Rob Drummond]

Great capture Jim. As you said, you don't see many photos of this species. I like the detail you've been able to capture and the typical finch pose on a grass stem.

cheers
Rob

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

hey Jim
I also see a lot of noise, though I am sitting in a shopping center at a terminal. Nice pose and great soft BG. Wonderful to see a different bird. Some good detail there. Thanks for sharing.

[Ramon M. Casares]

It could use some noise reduction and the BG could go darker IMO.
Nice pose, nice detail, nice species and comp.
Congratulations!

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

Very nice colors, good perch, head angle and background.

[Mike Veltri]

Stunning bird, love the light and head turn.

[Ed Cordes]

I'll echo the beautiful bird comments. I also agree a darker BG would be better, but it is nice as presented. Nice sharp eye with good feather detail. HH is a great achievement.

[Simon Bennett]

I like pose, typical perch and clean background. The birds colours are well captured

[Stu Bowie]

Very similar to our red headed finch. Super pose and head turn, and I would darken the BG a tad.

[Jay Gould]

Hi Jim, Jackie flipped over your Star Finch. She is the id bird lady in the family; says thanks for the sharing your image with her!

[Kiran Poonacha]

All sais above, I loved the image and a little more work on it would make it great. congrats..

We have a similar species here, I am still hunting it to make a decent image..

[Leo Berzins]

Beautiful bird and pose, Jim.
You've clearly got the hands and eye of a highly trained marksman to pull this off at 1000mm hand held.

[DarrenMcKenna]

Sweet looking bird





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