Redstart

[John Robinson]

Redstart
Another from the garden session. Still tied up processing wader stuff.
D7100
Sigma 50-500
ISO500 320thsec @f9
Crop from horizontal.
Cheers
JohnR
Thanks for looking at recent pics.

[Karl Egressy]

Nice pose, eye contact and nice perch, John. The food items in the beak add a lot of interest. feather details are very good.

[Randy Stout]

John:

Karl covered it well. Sense of depth from angle of light, prey, head angle, all good.

Cheers

Randy

[Stu Bowie]

Hi John, I really like the orange and blacks that go together on this fellow, and you captured a nice angle pose. A meal in the beak always add interest. There is a strange mark in the BG just above the head.

[gail bisson]

The bird and the prey look great.
You have a vertical line running though the frame above the head and below the feet.
Looks like a cloning artifact. I also see some cloning artifacts around the RHS of the birds body and on the bottom of the frame RHS.
What did you do here?
Gail

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image of beautiful bird. Very nice pose with catch, wonderful colors, great details, very artistic BG and nice composition.


Regards,
Satish.

[John Robinson]

Thanks all
Gail/Stu
Just gone back to all the originals and I can't see any reason to do anything. Theres a whole sequence almost identical except that this one has the spread tail. I enclose one of the others for comparison. The only thing I can think of is that there may have been a very blurred incoming female in the back ground on this frame which I wanted to keep due to the tail fan. There are certainly no highlights or anything as you can see from this shot which is the nextone in sequence out of the 9 total.
Can't understand the straight line though unless the clone brush was set on square which I don,t usually alter from round. I know it sounds daft but I dont always keep originals after processing. My gear is just not big enough!. I,m starting to get in a mess finding stuff as it is.
Cheers
John

[adrian dancy]

The image of the bird is top drawer. There are several cloning issues with the background.
I understand what you say with not having big gear. Been there myself and even though my computer is much better that previous ones I've had I'd never be able to process and store images from the new 50,000,000 pixel cameras out now! Perhaps saving just your best original shots to discs or a separate hard drive would help....just sayin' :)

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the pose, catch, details and composition. Well done John.