Mountain Bluebird Female

[Steve Canuel]

40D, 400DO + 1.4x & 2x TCs, f11, 1/250s, ISO 800, +1/3 EC, tripod mount, slight crop from bottom and right.

[Randy Stout]

Steve:

Perfect head angle, complimentary BG, well exposed.

I think your image quality is suffering a bit from the stacked TCs.

To my eye, its a bit oversharpened, as I am seeing a lot of jaggies along the rear of the bird, esp. along the top edge of the wing.

Thanks for sharing.

Randy

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Considering you had stacked TCs, this is darn fine for me! I think you can ease off the edges a little with a refine edge tool adjustment but the light and pose are great as is. Almost perfect HA, though I'd be more than happy with it as is. I would also not hesitate to stack TCs if I had an opportunity.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Nice pose, perch, comp, BG, detail and bird. Light angle is not ideal but is still very nice IMO.
Congratulations!

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Very nice job considering the TC's!
BG is very nice as bird is. I only wish for a better light angle and head turn.

[Lance Peters]

I think its great with the stacked converters. Maybe a tad oversharp.
A better light angle would have been nice - but still - well done!!

[Stu Bowie]

Hey Steve, I like the softer light too, and posing against an amazing BG. The comp works well, but have to agree there is a sharpening halo visible. Good job on the eye BTW.

[Steve Canuel]

Thanks for the comments. I have to say I can't really see the oversharpening but if more than two people are seeing it I might need to get my eyes checked. But I can also take that as a positive that a stacked TC shot can be sharp even though its messed up with bad PP :).