Greenfinch

[Jonathan Ashton]

Taken from a garden hide, he was controlling a wobble on the thin twig. Canon 7D Canon 500mm f4 L IS, ISO 400 1/1600 sec f5.6
All C&C welcome.

[Rob Melone]

Beautiful pose and detailed capture Jonathan! Love the perch and complimentary bg.

[ramesh anantharaman]

Hai Jonathan,

Just love the pose colours and the really silky BG. Just thinking!! would rmoving the OOF twig on the LHS and moving the bird to the left make this better??? Just wondering!!

[John Robinson]

Good action stuff Jon I agree about the left twig . Seems to unbalance the shot and looks odd going into the tail.
Cheers
John

[gail bisson]

I agree about removing the twig and moving the bird to the left of the frame.
The bird is tack sharp and the perch and BG are really nice.
I find the position of the bird very awkward. I would love to see the shot with him perched quietly- I know you have one!
Gail

[William Dickson]

Lovely Jonathan, lovely bird, lovely perch and lovely background

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Nice bird. You have gotten this one with a nice BG, light is alos good and I like sharpess as well. I wish the branch on the left was not touching the bird though.

[christopher galeski]

nice image,sharp were it counts,soft light,agree on the left branch being removed,and bird being moved to the left.

[Frank Schauf]

Great pose and setting you have here.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thanks for the comments everyone much appreciated. I did wonder about removing the twig on the left but I doubt the bird would have landed on the other one if the aforesaid wasn't there so I decided to leave it. I agree from an aesthetic point of view it would be better removed.