I got an image of a Common Redpoll that was not at a feeder recently. The easiest way I could find to crop it and avoid a lot of out-of-focus branches was this one, but I thought it better to leave the alder cones in as part of the image.
D300, Tamron 200-500, handheld, 1/800, f8.0, ISO 1600, spot-metered. Cropped in LR, slight Noise Ninja, sharpened in Preview.
Hi Richard The perch is competing with the bird Does look good but is overpowering I like the pose and bg very much Do think there is something going on with the processing If you send me a big file with as little compression as possible will give it a try Out in a workshop tomorrow but will get to it when I return home !!!!
Hi Richard There was something going on in the original My worked version looks better
When I get back home we can go over how you did it One of the steps did the damage My version is cropped Used levels added some black in selective color and sharpened