Natal Robin in my garden, Durban South Africa
R5
500 f4 ii
TC 2 iii
1000mm
1/640
f8
ISO3200
Stcks with gimbal
DXO Raw conversion , LRC, PS
Small Crop
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Natal Robin in my garden, Durban South Africa
R5
500 f4 ii
TC 2 iii
1000mm
1/640
f8
ISO3200
Stcks with gimbal
DXO Raw conversion , LRC, PS
Small Crop
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Hi Wayne ... lovely colorful subject .
Details and tones are looking good overall .
The eye is looking almost too good .... too glassy for my taste .
Personal i am not fan of your chosen crop ... but this is just a minor thing . I would prefer a classy 2x3
TFS Andreas
Sweet detail. The eye is the eye. Though I have been becoming more of a fan of square crops the one could go boxy with some more room in front of the bird.
with love, artie
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Wayne, there's lots of great things here!
The orange plumage presents very nicely against the dark green. You got lots of detail in the feathers and the eye lores.
I have heard about DXO but never used it - is that where you applied noise reduction? The eye does seem very glossy/shiny for some reason as Andreas noted.
Otherwise, I agree with Artie in the crop. This might be a candidate for a 5x7 horizontal (or even a 4x5 might work) where you can put a little more room to the right for the subject to look into.
Oh, and one thing that I notice and bothers me is the chroma noise with the R5. I look for a box under the Lens Corrections section in Lightroom that says "Remove Chromatic Aberration". If you have that checked, I suggest unchecking it. I can see chroma noise in the feathers near the nostril and into the head feathers. You probably can't, but once you remove the aberrations and click back and forth, I bet you can tell. It will help the detail and colors in the plumage I bet.

I like the pose, the eye does look a bit too glossy. maybe too much NR there ?
for me the head is just a bit too large in the frame and I am not a fan of the square crop as the others
TFS
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Great detail you managed. I am fine with the eye, but agree with comments about the crop. Also wish for a 2x3 or at least a 4x5.
Hi All,
Thank you all so much for your valued comments, I really feel like since I have statred posting to this forum your input has help me so much, thank you again.
I found another pic shot on the same day with a slightly different head angle and have lost a bit of the green BG but what do you think with this revision on the theme - now with a better crop
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Certainly fits the theme well. The blue and green go great together.