Fall Goldfinch

[Aidan Briggs]

A male Lesser Goldfinch on what I believe is a Dwarf Juniper perch that I selected the other day. The nice thing about juniper perches is that they last a long time without water.

Although ideally the perch would merge with the birds breast, I really liked the warm light and autumn BG here.

50D, 100-400 at 400mm
1/500 sec, f/5.6, ISO 640
Tripod, Blind

[Randy Stout]

Aidan:

Nice colors, exposure,BG, composition.
sharp on the eye, but I find the shallow DOF a bit distracting in this case. It is an interesting perch, and I wish it and the rest of the bird were more in focus.

Randy

[Harshad Barve]

Cute bird and nice colors all around
TFS

[Steve Maxson]

Hi Aidan. Nice pose, perch, and background. I would agree with Randy that more DOF would make the image much stronger. :)

[Danny J Brown]

Hi Aidan - Beautiful color here and I love the bokeh. Perch not too bad either. I'm surprised that F/5.6 didn't catch a little bigger slice of the critter. Nice image though.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice image overall, and I like the marbled BG. Good perch too. I know you deliberately chose this comp to include the complete perch tip, but I think it could be sacrificed by cropping some at right to better place the subject within the frame. Very well done!

[Steve Canuel]

Nice light, colors, subject, and perch.

[Bonnie Block]

Love the light, perch and the birds pose. The DOF is a little too narrow for me on this one.