A bird on the bush

[BillTyler]

Canon 50D
100-400 at 400mm
1/100 f/5.6
ISO 800

[Lance Peters]

Hi Bill - You have a good HA and eye contact and the BG is not bad - feels just a tad dark to me - might try setting a black and white point in P.S. and sharpen the eye a tad.
SS a little slow at the focal length - but have done well looks pretty sharp.

TFS

[Connie Mier]

The perch and the HA of the bird is great, and well composed. The bg takes away from it though as the bird gets lost in it.

[Kyle Marie Barcelos]

Like the HA and like the BG, if you lighten the bird a bit maybe the BG would work better IMO. Great job, TFS:)

[BillTyler]

Thanks to everyone for the comments. I'm swamped at work right now, but later today I'll see if I can work a bit on the background etc.

Bill

[BillTyler]

I've darkened the background a bit in this version. Don't know if it helps much. Thanks again for your comments.

Bill

[Desmond Chan]

Or perhaps darken and brighten the bird more ? I found the bird a tad too dark. It looks like to me the bird was in the shade while a large part of the perch and the background was fairly well-lit.

I also found some could be cropped from the left.

So here's another option.

[BillTyler]

Desmond, thanks for showing your rework of the image. It certainly makes the bird stand out more.

Bill