Black Crested Titmouse

[Mack Hicks]

One of my favorite backyard inhabitants, very active and vocal. I think this is a young one, could be one from the nest in one of my nesting boxes this year. The adult crest is usually much darker. He is perched on a cholla skeleton from West Texas, that is not native to Austin.

Nikon D700, Nikon 500 AFS with Kenko 1.4 TE
SB600 fill -0.7
ISO 1250 1/320 @ f/6.3

slight crop, NR and sharpened in LR#

[Michael Hogan]

Good composition, BG, HA and eye contact. I think the bird is a bit soft and could do with some selective sharpening. I might blur the BG a little. Love the perch. The crop might be a bit central, if you had a tad more room to the RHS it might improve it.

All that said, nice image and TFS

Michael

[Hendri Venter]

I agree with Michael re soft and crop. Handheld? Nice looking bird though and TFS.

[Mack Hicks]

I am looking at the image on my computer at work and I agree about the sharpness. It looks totally different on my 23" home monitor. One of the problems I have noted on other posts, is loss of sharpness from converting from a raw image in LR3 working in the Adobe color space, to a jpeg with sRGB. Is there another step to add in PP to get back the original image sharpness?