Eastern Bluebird

[Kent Wilson]

Taken May 11 with Canon 50D, 400mmf/5.6
Av Evaluative, 1/100@ f?8, ISO 400
Flash Comp -1 1/3

The blues look to me over-saturated, but I did not use Vibrance and even de-saturated a bit. What do you think? The colors on these guys were pretty intense.

As always, many thanks for your help.

[Christopher Miller]

Hi Kent, I like the image. The pose is very nice with a good HA. Like the colors and the blues don't look over-saturated to me. BG could use a pass of noise reduction. I might also consider cropping to remove some of the perch because it's rather large and IMO grabs attention away from the bird.

[Alfred Forns]

Great critique by Chris and fully agree !!

The blue on the top of the wing does look a little over, the rest looks fine. Possible to select that area and lower saturation a bit !!!

[Lance Peters]

HI Kent - agree with Chris - do like the Pose and HA.

Keep them coming :)

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Kent,
All of the techs. and good advise have been addressed...I like the capture...my only suggestion would be o run some noise reduction in the background...good show, looking forward to your next one...:cool:

[Ilija Dukovski]

Nice image, I like the head angle and the eye contact a lot.
Agree about the crop. Looking forward to more...

[Doug Brown]

Love that pose and BG! To the other comments I would add that the left side of the perch looks significantly burned. I would try using a burn brush with lower opacity, and try to burn just the perch instead of spilling over into the BG.

[Kent Wilson]

You are right, Doug, I ws working on about 4 hours sleep and got very sloppy. I agree that I over-burned the perch as well. I need to do some significant repair on this image.

I thank you, and the other folks again for being kind and honest critics.