California Thrasher

[wendell westfall]

D90 70-20VR+2X@340 1/1000 f5.6 ISO400 0EV monopod

I took this picture yesterday morning. It is the only decent image I got of the bird. He was hidden in the tree most of the time. It is cropped and sharpened. And I cloned a thin branch above its head. The indentation in its feathers on its right side looks a bit strange, but that is the way it was.

Wendell

[Sachin Saraf]

Wendell considering difficulty this is fine image...Light looks little harsh and you might be good if you can selectively recover highlights from the blown out part of the breast.

[Marina Scarr]

It looks as though you had some difficult lighting conditions when you photographed this thrasher. I like his pose and the open bill but the exposure needs to come down. I am not normally in the habit of cloning out a lot of objects but, in this particular case, I would clone out all of the twigs in the right bottom corner. The fact that most of them are OOF causes them to be quite distracting.

[Morris Altman]

I like the pose and find the little stick on the left bringsmy eyes back to the eye when they start to drift. A few spots have highlight clipping and if youhave time, check your LCD for blinking highlight warnings and adjust yourexposure a touch. The feather detail isvery nice.<o:p></o:p>
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[gail bisson]

Very good points made by everyone. Nice calling pose.
Gail