Red cardinal

[Francis Bossé]

Hi,

Reds are difficult to get right in the camera and then they are difficult to get right at the editing level... I have been playing with this picture for 2 hours to get it to my satisfaction...

How do you find it?

Quick note: the red look really different in Firefox compare to Safari on Mac!

Thanks for looking!

Canon MK III ISO400 1/640 f/8 EV -1/3 Flash Manual 1/16
http://www.exonet.qc.ca/ppn/ppn1265.jpg

[Daniel Cadieux]

Reds look good and natural from my end. Overall a great image...those reds look great against the dark olive green BG. Nice look-back pose. I might tone down the lighter part of the upper mandible.

[Joel Eade]

I shoot Cardinals alot (state bird of Kentucky) and I agree the reds are sometimes hard to get right. You did well. The image looks a little too contrasty to me but the reds look fine. There are some threads on BPN about dealing with over-saturated reds that you should read...it helped me understand better how to deal with this issue.

[Harshad Barve]

Beautiful image , lovely compo and killer BG , REDs are fine at my end
TFS

[Danny J Brown]

Great cardinal shot, Francis. Beautiful color and light control. I usually just desat the red channel a little with these guys but you've taken it to the next level. Contrast looks great on my monitor.

[William Currie]

Really nice image looks great nice depth to it color is bang on

[Kiran Poonacha]

beautiful looking Bird this, nice details, pose, perch and BG.. congrats..

[Morkel Erasmus]

reds look good here too. those threads are really helpful - go check them out. agree on toning down the sheen on the beak.

[Graham Smith.]

Looks great Francis - this is a really nice capture. He really pops agains the dark BG

[Roger Lauzon]

Salut Francis,

great shot, red looks great on my screen and I like the dark background.

Roger