Goldfinch and Sunflower

[Scott Frye]

Lesser Goldfinch at Gilbert Water Ranch (Gilbert, Arizona)

1/800 at f11 and ISO400
Bigma at 500mm
Canon 40D

[arash_hazeghi]

This is so cute, maybe a tad oversharpened but very well done, thanks for posting!

[Lance Peters]

Hi Scott - really like the behavior and the pose with a good head angle and eye contact. Feels a little tight to me and perhaps a little less sharpening :)
Is the background part of a setup??

[Scott Frye]

Background is natural -- color as captured -- just cloned out some stems on the upper right

[Dave Leroy]

Very nice pose Scott and nice eye contact. Not sure why, perhaps my monitor or my eyes, but the yellow seems a bit off. Really like the nice and simple composition. Dave

[Marina Scarr]

You sure got lucky with the pose here. It doesn't get much better than this. I agree that I would like to see this with a little more room on all sides. I think the picture would be more powerful that way.

[LouBuonomo]

yeah, great pose.. more room for sure and a light hand on post is better with these little guys
Lou