on the alert European Nuthatch

[christopher galeski]

Taken in my local woods at a feed station,cannon500mm L IS F4,7D,tripod,cropped,sharpened for web,touch of denoise in BG,iso800,F4,1/320S.Thanks for looking.

[John Robinson]

Classic nutty pose.The season is certainly here for these - had 5 on the garden this morning.Must get the old triopod set up on the window sill !!
Great shot. They are superb birds ar t this time of year for coulour and feather detail.
Cheers
JR

[David Salem]

Judging by your techs, it was late or overcast but your shot turned out very well. Nice detail in the face and I like the overall colors and tone to this. What a classic pose. Nice one.

[Holger Leyrer]

Beautiful light, colours, details and classic pose.
I have two in my garden but the weather is very bad

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Very nice Christopher!

The pose is great, and you nailed the focus on this guy. I might clean up the eye just a tad, especially round the catchlight.

While more dof would have been preferred, the settings you chose seem to be spot on for the lighting that you had.

Miguel

[Karl Egressy]

Excellent pose perch and background, Chris.

[dankearl]

Just about a perfect Nuthatch....
I wish the perch was all in focus.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Excellent pose, perch & BG. I also like the light & composition. TFS

[adrian dancy]

Excellent pose and lighting but it appears to me that the production has been a bit heavy handed.

[christopher galeski]

Thanks for looking and comments,Adrian,I don't understand your comment heavy handed,I have only done what I have said in my description,which I don't think is heavy handed,but thanks for looking and comment.

[gail bisson]

This is sweet. I love the light.
The nuthatch pose is classic and always well received by all of us.
I do wish the perch didn't have the OOF bit but still like the image very much. The techs are spot on with the 7D and I understand the choice of ISO and aperture but it sure would have been great to be able to get a higher aperture.
I would take a bit off the bottom to get rid of the sticking out OOF branch stump,
Gail