Dicksissel

[Mike Quigley]

1Dx, 500mm F4 V2, 2xII, 1000mm, F8, 1/800sec, hand held
This was a really windy day and the bush swaying like crazy. It was cloudy but nice soft light. I could have cloned out some stuff but wanted to hear critique first.

[Glennie Passier]

Mike, I really like this image of a cute little bird. I can see where you may have thought about some cloning. The image looks well exposed and sharp. Then BG and colours are gorgeous. If it were mine, I would consider a slice off the top and a slither down the RHS. At the moment he seems pretty much in the centre of the frame which does not appeal to a lot of folk. I would also clone out the bottom OOF foliage on the LHS bottom. Well worth the effort I think.

[Mike Quigley]

Mike, I really like this image of a cute little bird. I can see where you may have thought about some cloning. The image looks well exposed and sharp. Then BG and colours are gorgeous. If it were mine, I would consider a slice off the top and a slither down the RHS. At the moment he seems pretty much in the centre of the frame which does not appeal to a lot of folk. I would also clone out the bottom OOF foliage on the LHS bottom. Well worth the effort I think.

Glennie took off the bits you suggested.Nuts forgot the oof foliage mq

[Adhika Lie]

Mike, the revision is awesome. I won't change any bit on the leaves. Probably a slight crop from the right and a sliver from the bottom but that's about it. The leaves look fine to me and that BG is just amazing with the white opening up to the bird.

[Diane Miller]

Very pretty bird, with good cropping suggestions above. Hand holding 1000mm at 1/800 sec is very dicey. You don't mention the ISO -- maybe could have gone higher?? But that can cause issues too. Frustrating balance.

The bird looks sharp enough, though. This may be one that can profit from a very subtle Smart Sharpen of the re-sized JPEG.

Glad you fixed the glitch behind the bird -- from some sort of content-aware removal of the branch. It is not a problem to leave it.

[Mike Quigley]

Very pretty bird, with good cropping suggestions above. Hand holding 1000mm at 1/800 sec is very dicey. You don't mention the ISO -- maybe could have gone higher?? But that can cause issues too. Frustrating balance.

The bird looks sharp enough, though. This may be one that can profit from a very subtle Smart Sharpen of the re-sized JPEG.

Glad you fixed the glitch behind the bird -- from some sort of content-aware removal of the branch. It is not a problem to leave it.

Diane the ISO was 1600, lighting was poor, i have a little trouble with high iso.

[Diane Miller]

I haven't used the 1DX but by analogy to the 5D3 (supposedly same sensor, I think), 1600 should be fine unless you need to bring up exposure in post. That will always bring up noise. And of course a significant crop will do the same.

[Mike Quigley]

I haven't used the 1DX but by analogy to the 5D3 (supposedly same sensor, I think), 1600 should be fine unless you need to bring up exposure in post. That will always bring up noise. And of course a significant crop will do the same.

Thanks Diane had to do both. +exp, and crop.