Little Lost River, SE Idaho, mid June, Nikon D7100, Nikkor 600mm, f5.6, 1/320, iso 1600. All of the dippers favorite midstream perches had white rocks in the bg. First post in this forum for a while. I've been hanging out in Out of the Box. C & C appreciated.
Nice to see you in Avian Gary! Nice "fluffing up" pose, and that perch is quite unique...I also like that it is wet. Focus looks good, but to me the fine detail are starting to look stretched...perhaps a big crop? I'd have also tried going even lower to prevent the dark line in the BG from crossing behind the head.
Thanks to all for the C & C. Randy, the D7100 is newly acquired and we are just getting acquainted. Daniel, the image was cropped from 6000 x 4000 to 4370 x 3300. Perhaps noise accounts for some of the lost detail in the subject. At iso 1600 there was a fair amount of noise. I removed the bg noise with Nik Define2 and left the subject alone.