Red on red

[Duane Noblick]

Male Northern Cardinal perched in a Burning Bush. Soon the leaves will overpower everything around it once it turns full color. oof branch removed over birds right shoulder.

http://www.pbase.com/duane_va/image/118776063/original.jpg


Caon 50D~500mm f/4L~AV Mode~f/7.1~ISO320~1/250~-2/3 ec~partial metering

[Brian Barcelos]

Love the birds HA and the eye looks amazing. Personally I feel the BG competes too much with the bird and wished it were further back to be more out of focus. Other than that very nice.

[Daniel Belasco]

Now this is beautiful!!!
The bright red left in the upper right is too dominate. Agree with Brian that the leaves would be nice more OOF. But I'd trim a little off the right to make your eye concentrate on the bird. I would be nice if the blue on the right was cloned out.
On whole the sharp red bird on the red bg is a beautiful image and UNIQUE!!
Congrats
TFS
dan

[Marc Mol]

Nice and sharp Duane, with good perch & HA, shame the BG competes with the bird.

[Morkel Erasmus]

lovely bird and colours - I quite like the complimentary BG colours and feel if you could selectively darken the BG and lose some bright spots it would pop a lot more...

[Duane Noblick]

Thank you for your critique of the image. I agree about the bright spots need to be toned down or removed from the bg. As far as the bg colors competing with the bird....I've had mixed feedback about that. ;) My eyes don't wander around the image when I view it...I focus on the eye.