Baxter State Park Cedar

[john crookes]

Photographed in Baxter last week during one of the wetest 2 weeks I have ever seen in the area

Nikon D3
600mm with 1.7 ext
1/500th
F 7.1
ISO 1250
Gitzo tripod

[Bob Malbon]

John, Great pose and BG - can you sharpen a bit more? Besides wet how's you Summer been? Bob

[Doug Brown]

I like it overall, but agree that more sharpening and perhaps some increased saturation on the bird is in order. Thanks for posting!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Nice pose, perch and BG. Agree on more sharpening and might crop a bit off the right.

[Sudhir Shivaram]

A beautiful bird with some nice head turn and catch light. I would have liked to see some more saturation. The soft feel here looks nice, though it can take some more sharpening. You might want to run noise removal tool for that background. I feel there's too much of space left in front of the bird.

Rgds,
Sudhir

[john crookes]

Hi Bob It is going okay was up in the baxter region for two weeks and saw the sun maybe a total of 4 or 5 hours

Oh well

here is a repost with some enhancements

[Doug Brown]

You're on the right track John. I edited it in PS and adjusting the black point in Levels had a big impact on the image. I also did some selective sharpening of the bird, some NR on the BG, and boosted saturation a bit. What do you think?

[john crookes]

Thanks Doug
I like everything you did except that the background to me is too lite or oversat now but to each his own

John

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Lovely image and composition and like the repost. Thanks for sharing John .

[Maxis Gamez]

Excellent head turn with a nice re-post. The BG is very nice and makes your subject stand out!!

[Daniel Cadieux]

Doug, it seems your repost has given the waxwing a reddish cast...I prefer John's original colours. I like the perch the bird chose, looks great atop of it!

[Glenda Simmons]

John, I think your repost is excellant! I love this bird.

[john crookes]

Thanks everyone for your comments even though it was a rainy two weeks it was still time well spent out in the woods

John

[Grace Scalzo]

Hey, John. Nice work in tough conditions. I just got back from there myself, quite overcast and still raining some, but a sweeter spot on earth is tough to find.

[Arthur Morris]

Wonderful look-back head angle, perch, and of course--BKGR. I like all of them!