American Redstart

[Shawn Zierman]

This male American Redstart was photographed near Lake Superior during this past summer. Audio used as attractant, vehicle used as blind. Canon7d, Sigma50/500os, iso800, 1/160, cropped, noise reduction applied selectively to the background, one broken twig coming off the perch was cloned over, USM to the subject and perch selectively. Comments and critiques welcome.
Regards,
Shawn Zierman.

[Geoff Newhouse]

Great image, perfect engaging head angle makes this shot special. Good perch and nice green background allows the orange to pop.

TFS
Geoff

[gail bisson]

The orange really pops against the green BG.
At first I thought the exposure could be increased but upon further inspection I can see all the feather details very clearly.
Very nice Shawn!
Gail

[Grace Scalzo]

Rich, velvety blacks against that beautiful green background. Great image of a super bird.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

This is one of the most startlingly beautiful species IMHO. If one ever showed up in my viewfinder, I'd probably freak out and shriek like a school girl. Superb details. Great eye contact. Lovely BG. Nice work sir!

[Derek Willcox]

Top pic Shawn good details nice pose good BG it is nice as is but i think it could just used a bit more black increase and a little bit more shadows just to bring blacks a bit more up

[christopher galeski]

Beautiful capture of a beautiful bird,great BG,nice perch and pose,very nice detail.TFS.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Shawn, excellent exposure on two difficult colours, and you managed a good angled pose. Killer smooth BG. Well placed in the frame, although a little more room on the RHS wont harm.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Shawn a very nice bird that pops right of the pleasing BG , lovely overall colors and a pleasing crop .
In PP i might open up the blacks a tiny bit more as all 3 channels are clipped in the blacks .
Ps ... you have no color profile embedded in this file , so for better view i might do that .

Nice work Shawn, TFS Andreas

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Great DOF and details.
Lovely soft light, and the plumage is pretty.
Nicely done.
TFS

[David Salem]

Beautiful bird and I like the pose, the perch and that killer green BG. I think it looks a bit dark on my calibrated monitor and you will get even more detail out of the blacks if you bump it up a bit.
Here is more of what I was thinking. I actually used the levels slider in PS and adjusted the tone along with a little adjustment in the color to keep the orange as you have it as it was getting to be a bit yellow when I brightened things up.
Nice work as always