Palm on Pond Apple...

[David Roach]

EOS R6 RF 100-500 @500 f7.1 1/200 ISO 1600 HH. Manual EXP

[Ivan Sjogren]

I find this very pleasing David.
Nice composition and small-in-frame shot. I like the soft light and the color scheme. I would tone town the magneta just a tad.
I think the perch works but I wish the bird was sitting on the thicker part instead of having that part intersecting the body. Otherwise I think this holds up well in details and IQ too.

[David Roach]

EOS R6 RF 100-500 @500 f7.1 1/200 ISO 1600 HH. Manual EXP

Ivan,
Your inputs always valued and appreciated. I warmed this as it was low level morning light but I have trouble seeing the cast. So, I tried using tint (to the left) as well. Never used tint slider before but read it can easily remove magenta cast. Any better? Thanks again for the help.

[Ivan Sjogren]

Ivan,
Your inputs always valued and appreciated. I warmed this as it was low level morning light but I have trouble seeing the cast. So, I tried using tint (to the left) as well. Never used tint slider before but read it can easily remove magenta cast. Any better? Thanks again for the help.

Hi again David, I feel like I led you down the wrong path by describing the issue so poorly. Sorry for that. The repost has an even heavier color cast, but green this time. I had a go myself and the changes are very subtle. I wanted to warm the image as a whole, then I added some points of black and contrast. I reduced the saturation of magenta by -20 and then dragged the hue towards the red. I handled the magenta i selective color as well by reducing the cyan in the magenta channel.

[David Roach]

Hi again David, I feel like I led you down the wrong path by describing the issue so poorly. Sorry for that. The repost has an even heavier color cast, but green this time. I had a go myself and the changes are very subtle. I wanted to warm the image as a whole, then I added some points of black and contrast. I reduced the saturation of magenta by -20 and then dragged the hue towards the red. I handled the magenta i selective color as well by reducing the cyan in the magenta channel.

Thanks Ivan, once again...

[John Mack]

I like it. It works well with the big perch and the small bird. Gives a nice sense of scale. The background is pretty nice.

[Brian Sump]

David,

This is a very interesting composition. I honestly can't tell if I like the small v large here or if the leaves and main limb drown out the subject too much. But there's lots of beauty in it for sure.

I am curious where your focus point shows? Maybe it's me but the rump appears a good bit sharper than the head?

Ivan's color correction looks nice from my view.

Looks like you're having lots of fun with the R6 :-)

[David Roach]

David,

This is a very interesting composition. I honestly can't tell if I like the small v large here or if the leaves and main limb drown out the subject too much. But there's lots of beauty in it for sure.

I am curious where your focus point shows? Maybe it's me but the rump appears a good bit sharper than the head?

Ivan's color correction looks nice from my view.

Looks like you're having lots of fun with the R6 :-)

Hi Brian, Went back to raw and the eye is right in the center of focus box. At this distance and f7.1 the entire bird would be sharp regardless. It's more my personal preference to not sharpen as much as some like it here. Especially on warblers with those fine feathers. I pointed right at subject, got the eye then recomposed. This is cropped from all sides for better composition and to make subject slightly larger. Yes, they will have to pry both the lens and the body from my cold dead hands... Still learning many nuances.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Good idea David, it has a pleasing composition, colours covered, the only other suggestion I would offer is to reduce the brightness of the background a little and or apply a gentle vignette - this makes the bird and the branch stand out.

[Arthur Morris]

I like all three versions. It would be a lot of work but if it were mine I would eliminate the three small vertical branches on the right and then lost the grayish shapes as well.

with love, arite