White-winged Crossbill on Ice

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Today I finally found a cooperative flock of White-winged Crossbills in a nearby state park. The light was quite low and handholding a little tricky. The birds were pretty high up in the trees but sometimes got down to eye level.



1D3, 500f4, 1.4x, 1/160s, f/8, ISO 800

[Jeff Nadler]

Very nice Axel. Love the setting!

[Maxis Gamez]

Hi Axel,

Very nice setting and soft light. Looks a little over sharpened IMO. Nice colors too!

[Robert O'Toole]

Very nice Axel. The setting complete with ice is great. The soft light is very pleasing.

Robert

[bill kominsky]

Agree with Maxis on this one Axel, beautiful setting but on my monitor it also looks over sharpened.

Bill

[Stephen Stephen]

Axel congratulations on this capture of a colourful male. I like the overall composition of this image and the eye contct. The slightly "dirty" bill tells us what this bird is doing.

[Stu Bowie]

Lovely colours captured throughout the image. Comp wise, I would maybe take a bit off the top, but still a great image Axel.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Thanks for the good suggestions. Here is a repost, slight crop off the top and less sharpened. I noticed that the head looks oversharpened more quickly with my standard settings than with other species.