Little Wattlebird

[Colin Driscoll]

A bird about 20cm h2t.

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh296/MyPikkies/Other%20Birds/LittleWattleBird310110.jpg

50D 100-400 @ 285 1/100 f5.6 +.33ev iso400 430EXII -.66

Still having trouble retaining sharpness after the Save for Web steps.

[Leo Berzins]

G'day Colin.
Nice pose, head angle and background.
Unfortunately it appears overexposed. If you shoot raw images, you may be able to recover some detail in the conversion.
For advice on this and your sharpening troubles, I can highly recommend Artie's Digital Basics as a great way to fast track your digital image optimisation skills.

[Colin Driscoll]

Thanks Leo! Yes I shoot raw and that overexposed look (which I didn't recognise) is from my pp in trying to lift the bird out from the bg. I'll have a look at ADB.

[Bryan Hix]

Interesting bird. Agree with the exposure comment. I like the HA, but two things I might consider would be to clone/blend that brownish area in the LR in the BG and maybe clone out the vertical branch? Is this bird in the cuckoo or icterid family?

[Colin Driscoll]

Thanks Bryan, and apologies to the bird for my poor pp- the RAW image is much better. It's actually a Honeyeater, Meliphagidae.