Red Crossbill

[Rod Wiley]

This image was created with the Nikon D300 SB800 flash ISO 200 7.1 at 1/80
Back lighting was a problem but sometimes you just got to work with what you got.

[Arthur Morris]

Hey Rod, You did a fabulous job with the lighting and with the flash. Do you have any more room to the right?

Withover the shoulder images I prefer the head square to the imaging sensor rather than angled back towards you. I have not seen this species in several decades much less had a chance to photograph it.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

This is a very interesting bird.
Love the way the vegetation is framing the bird but find the twig on the back of the bird a bit distracting.

[Randy Stout]

Rod:

Excellent capture. I took the liberty of adjusting the luminosity and contrast of the background, as I found the bright green leaves behind the bird detracted from the subject. I also reduced the luminosity of the perch a bit to reduce the flashed look.

Just my take on your excellent image.

Randy

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great find and good discussion above. Another vote for the removal of the branch sticking out of the back.

[Morkel Erasmus]

how does this fellow eat??? ;)
super colours and detail. ditto removing branch behind...

[Arthur Morris]

He uses his bill to extract the seeds from pine cones.

[Rod Wiley]

I made the changes you guys sugguested, Please let me know what you think of it. thanks Rod

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[Axel Hildebrandt]

I would have left the leaves in the upper left in the image and would only remove the branch.

[Rod Wiley]

Axel hows that ?

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Better, I like it!

[Morkel Erasmus]

thanks Arthur for the info! never seen one before.

[Arthur Morris]

Rod, I like the final wider version best by far. Morkel: YAW