Yellowhammer

[Turo Jantunen]

Another bird photo from Pori,Finland. Emberiza citrinella = yellowhammer.

http://jantunen.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Linnut/Keltasirkku/IMG_3746.jpg/_small.jpg
Canon 50D, 400@100-400L,f8,1/640, ISO 400

It is a little bit too center crop, but I did not want totally washed snow more to the photo as there already is. White snow with sunshine is a bit tricky lighting condition, if subject wil be other than silhouette :)

[Jeroen Wijnands]

Geelgors in dutch. Recently removed from the list of endangered species here. Good portrait, shame of that diagonal branch on the left.

[Randy Stout]

I appreciate your crop comment, but if the original raw file has enough IQ, I would suggest something like this version. Obviously cropped it heavily, toned down the snow in LUC, removed the stem and some loose seed debris.

You can do a much better job on the original, as the image quality of my rework on the jpeg is poor, but I do think it is worth a look about a redo.

Cheers

Randy

[Luis Villablanca]

Nice portrait. I agree with Randy's comments and suggested rework.

[Turo Jantunen]

I will have to try that suggestion when I have time to do it. Btw, what is LUC?

[Randy Stout]

LUC = left upper corner

Randy