Love the perch. Like the BKGR. Good exposure and head angle. The face and the prey item could use a bit of selective sharpening, a contrast mask at 15-65-0. Lastly, the background looks a bit noisy.
Later and love, artie
ps: It is a Red-Winged Blackbird.
Last edited by Arthur Morris; 01-26-2008 at 07:15 PM.
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This is a really nice pose with good feeding action. Looks like the Background has been pretty heavily manipulated. Maybe blurred separately from the bird?