Northern Cardinal

[Sid Garige]

Canon 7D 500mm F4
ISO 640 1/500 F8
Laguna Seca Ranch, South Texas

[ramesh anantharaman]

Areally prettybird and a lovely contrsting perch and BG. are these birds reallyso bright or are the reds standing out a little high on my screen??????

[Melissa Groo]

Fantastic image, Sid. So beautiful. I would maybe increase the blacks just a tad, seems overall bright. That eye is just stellar. Love the comp and head angle and colors.

[Gary Esman]

Nice perch, great HA, exposure looks great! Raised crest and the eye as mentioned looks awesome.

Gary.

[Geir Jensen]

Great picture of a beautiful bird. I like the comp, BG, IQ. well done:S3:

[Ishmeet Sahni]

A beautiful bird, and a super perch.....Amazing.

[Nancy Bell]

Excellent image! Great compostion and a great pose on the cardinal. Seems just a tiny bit bright. Maybe play with curves, but only a very small amount.

[Bill Dix]

Great HA, pose, perch and comp. I agree with Nancy. What is the BG? It seems almost to plain, although it does set off the bird and perch very nicely.

[Amol Khedgikar]

Lovely smooth BG. Like the way the bird is naturally framed by the branches. Looks a little light for my taste. May be increase the blacks a little? Just to make it a little more contrasty?

[Robert Holguin]

Excellent shot. Wonderful pose, love the raised crest, great perch and background.
Well done.

[stuart wanuck]

great image this looks smaller than your polar bears!

[arash_hazeghi]

awesome pose and a nice BG Sid. excellent, I tend to agree with toning down the red channel just a tad

TFS, great work

[yogesh_puranik]

hey sid..superb image nice perch and light..lovely one..

[James Salywoda]

Such a beautiful image Sid love the composition and excellent detail very well done.

[RakeshDhareshwar]

Lovely image overall . The striking red bird stands out against the BG . I just found the perch a bit busy . A simpler perch would have done more justice to this one .( if this was a setup ) , else you cant do much about it .

[Sid Garige]

Areally prettybird and a lovely contrsting perch and BG. are these birds reallyso bright or are the reds standing out a little high on my screen??????

Ramesh,

They are real bright red color birds.

-Sid

[Sid Garige]

Great HA, pose, perch and comp. I agree with Nancy. What is the BG? It seems almost to plain, although it does set off the bird and perch very nicely.

Bill,

Background is out of focus ground.I setup perches real low on the ground and used OOF ground as back drop.
-Sid

[Sachin Saraf]

This is really beautiful Image Sid...TFS

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Sid, just love the whole setting in this, with the reds of the cardinal against the lighter foliage and BG. The cardinal is well exposed, sharp, and has posed for you very well.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Sid, I liked this perch a lot. looks very natural. I like that you did not clean the leaves from the LLC. Good job on the reds and the BG helps with the pop.