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.
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.
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.
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.