Master of the stump

[OvidiuCavasdan]

Move the blind out of the garden. Set it up out in the field, near a small pond with lot of trees around.
Canon 40D, EF70-200f4IS
1/400sec
f/9
ISO 1000
PP: curves adjustement, NR, crop, extend the background in the upper part, sharpening.
The perch is a bit large I think.

[Katie Rupp]

This is a beautiful little bird with lots of detail. I'd like to see it cropped from the bottom to eliminate the bright spot (cut limb?) as it detracts from the subject.

[Lance Peters]

Hi - love the pose - you have a good HA nice eye contact and a gorgeous BG - WELL Done :)

Perch is a little big - would crop some from the bottom :)

[Kathy Reeves]

Gorgeous!! love the detail and simple BG!!

[Glenn Romain]

Very nice pose sharpness and detail , well captured :)

[OvidiuCavasdan]

Thank you all for comments and suggestion.
Another try:

[Gus Cobos]

Excellent repost with the reduced perch, this places more emphasis on your subject...good comments and suggestions by Mr. Peters...looking forward to your next one...:cool:

[Ilija Dukovski]

Excellent re-post. Considering it was done with 200mm? this is just fantastic.
Good head angle and look, very interesting and unusual pose. Nicely sharp at ISO 1000.
Very nice color of BG.
Congrats!

Cheers, Ilija