AUTUM NUTHATCH

[christopher galeski]

Took this image early this morning,cannon 7D,cannon 500MM L IS F4,iso 250,f4,1/800s,hand held,cropped.touch sharpened for the web.comments good or bad.thanks.

[Jon Rista]

Great capture. I like the pose, great detail. You can almost feel the warm morning light.

he contrast is very high...it might be useful to reduce it a little bit, lighten the background, soften those harsh shadows and edges.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Christopher - great light and mood that you captured here. I would agree with Jon and would reduce some contrast on the branch, but I like it on the bird.

[Cheryl Flory]

Hey, another red-breasted nuthatch! Great catch, and you even got its tail! Do you feed them to bring it in? the color tint certainly shows the very low sun. It looks a bit over saturated on my monitor, or could that be due to the low sun? Good capture, I know how quick these little dudes can be!

[PhilCook]

I rather like it pretty much as it is with the darker contrasty tones, but to me it just needs a hint more light on the face/eye and maybe crop to just above the oof section of the log and as well as little more off the top and right.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image,beautiful morning lights,lovely composition.
Love the pose,colors and details.

Regards,
Satish.

[christopher galeski]

Thanks everybody for your comments,Cheryl ther was a feeding station 20yds away,they take a nut and fly off and store it for later,I watched this keep going to the same place to store its food,so I waited near the place,and got this shot.thanks again.

[Doug Brown]

I like this image; great light, nice pose, and good sharpness. I would like to see the rather strong shadow reduced in post. I might have bumped the ISO and gone with more DOF, as I do find the OOF areas of the perch somewhat distracting.