Painted Bunting

[Tim Vidrine]

I was able to capture this male bunting while at the Atchafalaya NWR. A female showed up about 5 minutes after this one so the pair stayed around for awhile. In this image he was looking for her. All in all, this was a very productive trip with the warblers and buntings.

Digital Basic steps, saturation masks, 50% crop to vertical

04/26/2008 10:15am
Canon 40D
Canon 500mm + 1.4x
1/400s, f/5.6, iso800
AV
Eval
Fill Flash -3

[Doug Brown]

Tim, an interesting pose and a pretty bird. I think the bird could stand some more sharpening and perhaps a small saturation boost. The eye would benefit from removing the flashed area at the bottom.

[Philip Lombard]

Very nice shot and I agree with Doug an adjsutment in curves top slider will bring up the colors and selective sharpening .

[Tim Vidrine]

Thanks guys. I'll give it a go. Looks like I've gone from one extreme to the other.:) I had the same problems with my last image I posted. The images prior had over sat problems. Seems I'm a bit "gun shy" now on sharpening and over sat problems. Hopefully, I can find the happy medium.

[Andrew McCullough]

Beautiful bird in a great pose. Agree with the others about the need for a little processing.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Tim,
As mentioned above........nice pose and details........if you are going to bring into PS to make above changes.....try darkening the BG and see if it improves image???? Not sure if it will work, but worth a shot.