Northern Mockingbird

[Luis Villablanca]

This is from this afternoon at Ed Levin Park.
The mockingbird perched on a bush just as the light was fading over the horizon.
I was shooting handheld, so I decided to give up DOF in order to maintain a good shutter speed
and shot this wide open.
The original shot had a strong golden cast so I changed the WB to 3500K to make it
look more like what I saw.

http://luisv.smugmug.com/photos/813045973_3acVG-O-2.jpg
7D + 500L + 1.4x, 1/1000s f/5.6 ISO 800, cropped a bit and resized

C&C are welcome.
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Luis

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice profile image, and the DOF looks just fine with the bird sharp from bill to tail. I kinda wish the BG was less uniform, but still alright as is. Selectively reducing the blue and cyan channels in saturation would work nicely to rid the blue shaded band along the belly's edge as well as the bluish spots at wing tips and tail. Techs look good, as does the comp.

[arash_hazeghi]

looks nice Luis, like the HA and perch would just run another round of NR on BG. well done

[Stu Bowie]

A simple pose that works well against a lovely clean BG.