White-crowned Sparrow

[Mike Milicia]

EOS-1D Mk III, 500mm f/4 + 1.4x II, 1/1000, f/8, ISO 400
Evaluative metering at 0
Manual Fill Flash at -2 with Better Beamer
About 85% of Full Frame

Removed flash catchlight and small piece of debris from bill.

Photographed last week at a feeder setup in Rondeau Provincial Park in southwest Ontario.

Looking forward to your comments and critiques!

[Ramon M. Casares]

Preety much perfect to me, the one thing I wouls change is the signature.. I'd put my name :)
Big congratulations on a terrific shot, great pose, amazing BG, detail is stunning, light is lovely, exposure, colors, and perch are also fantastic!

[Don Anderson]

Beautiful shot.. my only chg would be to crop out more of the perch.
Make the print wider and thinner

[Daniel Cadieux]

Man, this is one of the better images of this species I have seen in quite a while. Excellent techs througout, and I love the perch despite it being large. I only wish the tail's shadow wasn't visible at the tip of the perch. I would go the opposite from Don and actually lop off about 1/3 of the space above instaed of below. Super job!!

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Beautiful sparrow!

Love the clean BG, perch and pose. Great work.

[Juan Aragonés]

Superb exposure job, great Bg and I like the sharpness and eye contact. The perch is too big for this guy but that is just my personal taste. very good image :-)

[Linda Robbins]

Lovely image in every respect. I like the large perch, and the texture adds a lot of interest to the image. I wouldn't change a thing.

[Bryan Erb]

Nice pose and composition, cool perch too.