Northern Parula

[bill kominsky]

Well folks once again my image didn't appear yesterday and again do not know why, so here it is again.
Taken at the Green Cay Wetlands with a Canon 40-D ISO = 400 F/6.3 at 1/200th. of a sec and a + 0.7.

All C/C's welcome and appreciated, thank you.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the unusual pose and setting. I might give it a bit more room, selectively sharpen the head and desaturate the yellows a few points.

[Doug Brown]

The eye contact is really good here, as is the color palette. I don't mind the leaf covering part of the bird because you can still see all of the 'important' parts. I would apply a little more sharpening to the bird. Having never seen one of these, I can't comment on desaturating the yellows.

[Kobus Tollig]

Ditto the shapening. Also like the comp and colours here. Great work well done

[Arthur Morris]

Agree on nice pose and BKGR. The yellows are in fact too saturated. How do I know? I opened the JPEG and the yellows showed as over-exposed in a Levels check.

De-SAT-ing the yellows would likely bring back detail and yield an acceptable histogram without any over-EXP.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Pretty cool for the reasons mentioned, and the suggested tweaks will push this image even better :-) Just a couple of months now before we start seeing these guys and other warblers up here!!

[Joe Senzatimore]

Nits mentioned , I like this comp. very much.

[bill kominsky]

Here folks is a re-post of the image with the suggestions corrected, I hope to everyone's liking.

[Arthur Morris]

Better, but the face could go lighter and the neck looks too contrasty/over-SAT-ed. Did you work on the JPEG or did you go back to the optimized master file?

[bill kominsky]

Better, but the face could go lighter and the neck looks too contrasty/over-SAT-ed. Did you work on the JPEG or did you go back to the optimized master file?

Optimized master file Artie.

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks for the info Bill. The image look better second time around!