I would like you opinions of this image. Blue gradiant used and a bit of sharpening. Hope you like it. Let me know?
700mm
1050mm (in 35mm film)
1/500 sec, f/5.6
Mode: Av
Metering: Multi-segment
ISO: 400
White balance: Auto
Flash: Off
File size: 1,193KB
Image size: 800 x 951
Color space: sRGB
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: Low
Contrast: Normal
Color profile: sRGB
I do like the pose and the perch is alright too. Looks like this image is suffering from a heavy crop (loss of fine detail and very noisy), and the diagonal lines in your gradiant should go.
I like the eye contact and agree regarding noise and lines in the BG. Was the original underexposed and did you dial in positive exposure compensation?