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    Default Female Eastern Bluebird.

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    Certainly not as vibrant as her male counterpart, but she is darn right beautiful. Had this been the male's colours and the female all brown (ā-la cardinal) then all lenses would be pointed at this instead Here's another perch I setup near a nestbox, and the female sure did like it a lot...stopping on it for a few moments almost every time she came back to the box.

    Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/400s., f/8, ISO 400, natural light, handheld (from the car, lens resting on window opening), full-frame, darkened pupil, cloned away a pale blue small gap at top-left corner, toned down the lower half of the perch.

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    Wow what a gorgeous image Dan! Love the IQ, colors, comp and HA.

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    Great comp - I like her pose on the perch very much. Excellent light and exposure, BG very nice. I think she has great color and is a wonderful specimen. Nothing to fix in my book, wish this one was mine! Congrats on a fine shot.

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    very nice capture,good pose,nice light and perch,stunner of a BG,bird sharp with good detail.well done.

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    Daniel Sir,
    Absolutely superb image of beautiful lady.
    Love the pose,colors,nice details,lights,perch,superb BG and composition.

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    Satish.

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    I like the females a lot, as with most birds, i usually prefer them for some reason.
    Excellent perch and a creative way you captured these.
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    Very nice colorful and light image with great detail. Nice to hear how you photographed this bird.

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    Hi Dan, maybe not as striking as the male, but certainly enough colour to stand out. Sharp, soft light, and love the high placement on the perch, and against a smooth BG.

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    Superb, as always. I love the color gradient in the BG, but wondering if the yellow-green, beautiful as it is, is competing with the bird just a little too much in the top half or so?

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    Super pose and comp, Sharp and lovely soft colours Great looking bird.
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    I took the liberty of doing a little adjusting -- brought the BG color a little closer to the lovely palette of the bird, using Hue-Sat on greens and yellows, masked to the BG, and added just a touch of contrast to the bird. All a matter of taste, of course.

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    This is a beautiful image, I like the vertical comp. I prefer Diane repost, very little in it though, nice work.

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    Were it mine, I would probably explore more contrast on the bird, but didn't want to mess with Daniel's art. Mostly just wanted to show how a subtle tweak to the BG color brought it a little more in harmony with the bird's color palette.

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    I think Dianne has improved a little on what was already a great image....I can see some jpeg artifacts { wavy areas } in the backdrop on both images though, but only really noticeable if I scroll image up and down a little and look closely

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    Sweet photo from top to bottom Daniel. A real beauty! (I see the artifacts more in Diane's than Daniel's, but I get that too from downsizing and posting for web on that kind of background).

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    That's what working in 8 bits gets you with lovely subtle tonal gradients. The many thousands of tonal levels in each channel in a 16 bit image (really how many depends on what the camera captured) gives you a lot more overhead for adjustments, and subtle cloning, than the 256 levels in an 8 bit image. With fewer levels you get posterization a lot sooner.

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    Thanks for the comments all! Diane, I like your repost...thanks for taking the time to do it

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    You're welcome! Glad you like it!

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    Daniel:

    Very well constructed image, pose, sharpness, interesting perch without being overpowering.

    Good tweaks by Diane.

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    I like the simplicity of the frame and the technical excellence. Great perch too.
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    Excellent pose, perch & BG. Lovely colors & IQ.

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    Wow you have captured this female with perfect settings
    i love the BG and the details on the bird, sweet and simple and yet very very classy

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    Wow,Excellent BG,pose, perch .very nice colors & IQ.

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    Lovely image Dan, I was about to comments on the contrast and background but I see Diane has probably done a better job than I!! Similarly with my 7D the greens frequently give me problems, often being a little heavy handed with the yellows

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