Redstart

[John Robinson]

Redstart(Male)
Bit of an experiment with this one. I am having a job getting all of the bird anything like sharp. Gert get tyhe head but not the tail for example. So my usual solution is to rack out and use less of the telphoto end.
This one is a very large crop as you can see by the full frame. I enlarged the original( just to see what happened) by 160 %( bicubic) and then cropped and then just reduced for web.. Its the only one with the large food item side on
D71000
Sigma 50-500mm
800ISO
350th @f9
Neat image.
Thanks for looking.
JohnR

[John Robinson]

This is the full frame.

[Marina Scarr]

Wow, John. I like this image even better than the last. The perch is better, the prey larger. The only thing I would do is clean up that little bit of perch on the bottom right.

[John Robinson]

Thanks Marina-Will do. How can I miss a thing like that - old age ! How a three day chick can get that down beats me !
John

[Raybel Robles]

Love this photo, great colors, pose and IQ. All good!

[Graham Wilkes]

Blimey that's a mouthful, the image is very good considering the original full frame.
Lichen covered perches like that are great and the backdrop is perfect.
Magazine cover.

Graham.

[John Robinson]

Thanks people.
Graham- you should be able to get plenty like this.(You can't use my perch though
John

[Joseph Przybyla]

A beauty, love the caterpillar. Thank you for sharing, John.

[Glenn Conlan]

One of your best John, the soft BG and the prey capture is a great spring image