American Redstart (male)

[Raul Quinones]

Canon EOS 40D, EF500mm f/4L IS USM +1.4x

Green Cay Wetlands, FL @ 10/1/2008 17:42:13
1/800, F5.6, Evaluative metering, No Exposure Compensation, ISO Speed 640, 700.0 mm

Some branches and leaves removed, PS kills dis not allowed me to removed the one at the head.

C/C welcome
Raul

[Doug Brown]

Nice capture with good exposure. Lot's of detail in the blacks. Here's a repost with the leaves removed up top. I left the ones in at the bottom.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Beautiful bird and beautifully captured Raul. Like the repost Doug. The detail is excellent and great eye contact and BG . Not an easy subject to photograph Raul. Congratulations on a fine image.

[Lance Peters]

LOve the repost - congrats on a fine image :)

[Raul Quinones]

Doug,
Thanks for the repost, that was exactly what I was trying to accomplish... I tried, but was not able to do it.

Raul

[Linda Robbins]

Nice capture of a difficult to photograph bird. Good exposure and very nice pose. Doug's repost looks nice with the leaves removed. Well done!

[Mark Schmitt]

Raul, nice image of a bird I'd like to see one of these days. Try using the "extract" aplete in Photoshop; or mask functions or define edges function in combination. There are numerous ways to eliminate elements in an image.