Eastern Bluebird

[Raymond Barlow]

D300 200-400 VR 1.4 TC
1/200s f/8.0 at 550.0mm iso200
Hand held resting on truck window, 60% of ff, natural light

Taken a few weeks ago while on a camping trip to Guelph Lakes CA.
Sorry I haven't been around much lately, just been too busy to participate in the forums.

thanks for looking!

[Daniel Cadieux]

Good light and colours, and I like the fresh tuft of maple leaves the bluebird is resting on. Beautiful BG. I normally like the subject a little larger in the frame, but the comp works well. You may want to tone down the lighter of the two vertical branches.

[Mital Patel]

Hi Raymond.
Here is what i like
a) Composition is superb to me some correction can be made to make it more interesting
b) everything exposed good
c) nice warm colors

Suggestions
a) you can crop some area from left and bottom.
b) some cloning.


sorry i've removed the image i attched due to one silly mistake i've made and realized after the posting but the above points are still there to consider as per me.

this is a ture top class image to me.

[Mark Dumbleton]

Super light here and exposure! Prefer the original post - to me it feels more balanced in terms of comp.

[Juan Aragonés]

Hey Ray, I missed your images. Hope everything is going right :-)
I am a big fan of empty spaces in composition and that is a good reason to love this one, but I have to agree with Mital, just a bit croping from the top and left would made this composition even better (IMO). I also love the almost 3D looks of the bird and perch. Fantastic eye contact and light.

PS: I cannot but wonder how good this image would be under backlighting conditions...

[Fabs Forns]

Hola Ray, long time no see, guess you have been busy in a project, glad to have you here.
I love the composition. I did not get to see Mital's crop so I don't get to choose.'I love how he is perched on a bunch of leaves :)

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

You really have excellent lighting here, good head angle. I like the composition, I think a the great background deserves some extra room in this one.

[Mital Patel]

sorry friends had to re-process
here is the suggestion

[David Hemmings]

Hey Mr Ray! This is lovely. I like the composition as presented. Lovely perch and warm bg colors!

[Stu Bowie]

Stunning light, colours and detail, and what a cozy perch. I like the space too, and Mital's repost works well. I find in both, the vertical branch distracting, but realize his perch is attached to it.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the warm light, angle, details and BG. I think both crops work well. I might adjust the midtones to make it a bit darker.

[Raymond Barlow]

thanks very much to everyone for the very fine critique. Also thanks to Axel for the extra help today., and to Mital for the extra, and imformative efforts.

It feels good to be back here.