This nice purple finch female visited my feeders a couple of days ago. I liked her attentive pose, raised crest, and subtle colors. The debris on the bill comes from the suet feeder I believe. I made several passes at cleaning it, but didn't like the results.
D300 500mm f/4 at f/6.3 1/500 second ISO 800 Ap Priority -.3 SB800 with Beamer -1.7 EC
Post in NX2 not much, small crop, minor sharpening.
jpeg compression cut out some of the lovely feather detail, esp. in the crest.
HEy leave the feed where it is. :) I like the comp, pose and fabulous feather detail. I would love to see one of your captures like this in warm evening light! THanks for sharing. It is gorgeous.
Very nice, great detail, most of all perfect BG subject match...
The feeder situation and food on beaks is always difficult, not too bad in this case.
Good work!
Really nice detail Randy, it seems that with that clean bg you may have been able to stop down to say F8 and possibly get more of the tail in focus as well.