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    Default Fox Sparrow

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    Another backyard bird/setup with feeder & hide.
    40D, 300 2.8L + 1.4TC, f/6.3, 1/200s, ISO 640, +1 1/3 EC
    Usual photoshop processing, a little cropped from the left and top.

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    Joel:

    Your bird is sharp, nice angle in the frame, well exposed.

    The perch is a bit massive for him. The lower background(snow?) is so bright and detail less, that it is a bit distracting. Almost makes you feel like the image is upside down, with sky at bottom.

    I suspect the highlights are blown here, and there is no detail to recover, but it might be worth a try reconverting with significantly less exposure on the lower background, and see if you can tease any detail out.

    The bird looks a bit over saturated to me.

    Keep them coming!

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    I like the pose and clarity. I don't have any problem with the white in the background; it isn't near being clipped. My main
    adjustment would be to pull the reds way down. I don't really mind little birds on big perches, but it's easy enough to slim
    this one down a little bit.

    I think I would crop something like this ...


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    Nice and sharp and a really good pose. Repost looks very nice. Dave

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    Nice looking bird. Very sharp. Good pose. Agree with the comments about strong red cast. Would crop top and right. No problems with the perch.

    Mark

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    Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. I like the crop in the repost and trimming the perch is cool but I think the reds are a little too desaturated compared to how the bird looked to my eyes. The only thing I did was to crop, adjust levels and curves slightly and a light touch of USM (120/0.4/4) otherwise it's just how it came out of the camera. My 40D is set to Artie's specs.

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