White-breasted Nuthatch

[Josiah LaCelle]

Canon 30D
Sigma 500 4.5 EX
Exposure-1/800sec
Aperture-f/8
ISO-640

All C&C more than welcome!

[Randy Stout]

Josiah:

Classic nuthatch pose, well exposed, sharp on the eye and head.

Good use of the side light.

I might try to down play the massiveness of the perch by reducing the brightness a bit, and might consider a small crop to help decrease the amount of perch showing, and decenter the bird a bit more.

Thanks for sharing.

Randy

[Randy Stout]

Josiah:

I had a second, so reworked your image with the above changes.

Small crop from left
Lowered the exposure on trunk by 1/2 stop using a quick mask.

I did notice as I was working on it, that there is a sharpening halo around the head.

Just some options for you to consider. By the way, the maximum posting size is 1024 by 800. Your original was a bit bigger than that.

Randy

[Dan Busby]

Josiah - I like the head angle, background and eye catch. Nicely captured. The perch is very prominent and detracts a bit from the bird. Personally, I would prefer to not see the rear end of the bird going out of focus - would prefer either head on or full in focus side view.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Pose and BG look good. I find the protruding branch underneath the bird distracting and the blacks in that area are blocked. I also wish for a bit more eye contact. Keep them coming!

[Kim Rollins]

You have received some good critique and suggestions from other here.

The thing about nut hatches is they are often on a huge perch. You did well with the capture though.

Keep clicking. I want to see more.

[Arthur Morris]

I call Randy's re-post and raise him one protruding branch less as per Axel's suggestion. Also did a Gaussian blur on the sort of mess in the urc.... Then added BLACK to the WHITES in Selective Color.

[Josiah LaCelle]

Thanks everyone for the comments and suggestions and thank you to Randy and Author for doing the repost's as well.