American Goldfinch

[Gary Dumer]

Morning Light by a Small Swamp off the Tennessee River


1D MK III with 500/4 on Tripod
ISO 400
SS 1/800
Exp +1/3
F 5.6

Crop From 2:3 Ratio to 2:2.5 Ratio
Ran Levels, Curves to Slight S and USM after Resizing!!!

[Nancy A Elwood]

Gary this is just wonderfully framed!! The BG is to die for, along with the colors and sharpness. You even got nice eye contact.

[Randy Stout]

Gary:

Lovely background, interesting perch, and fun pose. Exposure is good.

On my monitor, the bird looks over sharpened, with some subtle halos and edge effects starting to show up. It might be worth backing down the sharpening just a bit. I tend to be very sensitive to over sharpening, so will be curious what the rest of the crew feels.

Nancy felt it was OK, so perhaps its just me, but I don't think so.

Thanks for posting this beauty.

Randy

[David Thomasson]

Beautiful image, love the composition. I don't see any signs of over-sharpening.

[Doug Brown]

Great pose, perch, and BG! The yellow feathers do look ever-so-slightly oversharpened on my monitor, but still look very good. I'd like to see a bit of green above the perch, instead of having it clipped up top.

[Ramon M. Casares]

I think thos one is specially great, onew of the images I like the best lately, great pose, perch, BG, light, detail and colors, I might just try to ad more canvas to the right.
Congratulatinos!

[Dick Glover]

Gary,
I second Ramon's comments, and I don't notice oversharpening, or halos. I love the composition of this image and congratulate you. Thanks for sharing.
Dick

[arash_hazeghi]

Excellent colors and killer BG, sharpness is very good, I don't see any halos on my screen.

[Herb Houghton]

This is a real nice capture, nice pose, lighting and as was stated already, a beautiful background.

[Chris Kotze]

Super pose and excellent colours. Awesome background

[Gary Dumer]

Many Thanks To All that took the Time to Look and Comment on the Image, I reallly appreciate Honest Feedback!!!