Blackcap (f) (Sylvia atricapilla)

[Jonathan Ashton]

Image captured in my back garden
Olympus E-M1X
Lens focal length : 420 mm (35mm equiv)(40-150mm & MC14)
Exposure mode : Manual exposure
ISO Sensitivity : 1600
Exposure compensation : +0.3 EV
Shutter : 1/800 sec

ACR/TopazDNAI/PSCC

[Randy Stout]

Jon:

A very subtle bird. well captured, with interesting perch. Nice catchlight, soft background. I am guessing your back garden is not covered in snow! -10 here this AM, with 2 feet of snow on the ground!

Cheers

Randy

[Brian Sump]

Jonathan, gorgeous. I had to Google to realize this is in the Warbler family. Cool!

Checks so many boxes; nice, in focus perch, great sharpness on the entire subject, nice head angle and beautiful bkg. Lichen is great.

If you had the canvas you might consider bumping the frame right just a little. You would lose the little stem sticking up on the right and maybe balance the frame a touch.

I dig this though, well done.

[Steve Kaluski]

A nice clean shot of this guy Jon and you have a lovely backdrop too. I think you could add a tad of Exposure and if you have it, as you didn't mention it, but a tad more on the LHS and loose the ugly end of the perch on the RHS, might hide a hint of cloning too there? I might look at your greens Jon, the lichen to me is missing that nice yellow, it has a blue/green look IMHO. Could also up the sharpening, but as this is perceptual then personal tastes.

TFS
Steve

PS jon I have a huge amount on currently so am only going to dip in & out as and when I can.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thanks everyone for your comments, Steve, I wasn't happy with the greens, I have a few ideas - always experimenting! (or messing about) - depends on how you view things!

[gail bisson]

Nice solid image. So nice to see the female of a species.
Good position on the bird with a nice view of the entire bird.
I like the variations in the BG.
I would crop slightly to eliminate the little bits if branch on the RHS and LHS or you could clone out.
I have never seen this bird IRL but think that the greens are quite heavy in the BG and perch. I would try for something between your OP and Steve's repost (which looks to yellow to me although the bird looks really nice in his repost)
TFS,
Gail

[Volkan Akgul]

Hi Jonathan,

very good comp and detail. Congratulations.

Steve, made a magic touch
both are super

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Jon .... a real peach

Nice IQ and the overall design is cool .
Color is matter of taste , will leave that to you .... as peeping might be difficult .
Just needs more exposure , IMHO .

Enjoyed watching .... TFS Andreas

[arash_hazeghi]

Now this is much better than the other two shots above. Bird is sharp and is showing good details you got a nice perch complete with moss which is great too. The image has a strong green magenta color cast which Steve fixed. Makes me wonder if you have a bad monitor or uncalibrated as I see it in every single photo you post. Something to this about.

TFS