Just a White-Crowned Sparrow

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Photographed at the Bosque Visitor Center in November 2009. Haven't gotten around to process any of my other images...

Thanks in advance. JR

Canon 40D, 500F4IS, 1.4 TC, 700 mm, 1/320, F9, ISO-200, Manual Exposure, Gitzo Tripod, Wimberley 3.5a/b

[Doug Brown]

Great feather detail, and I like the BG color and softness. I'd add a little canvas on the left, and I'd consider removing the shadow.

[Randy Stout]

Joerg:

Very nice exposure with fairly harsh light. Excellent detail as pointed out by Doug. For my tastes, excellent level of sharpening. Like the feet.
Perhaps a fraction more room on the left if you have it.

Randy

[Dave Leroy]

Very nice shot. I have been looking for these little guys for a while now. I like the nice dof for the small bird. It does seem a bit tight on the left. Dave

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the head angle, sharpness and BG. Another vote for a wider crop and maybe lightening of the shadow.

[Gal Shon]

you did very well in that light condition.
Agree with the wider crop suggestion. other then that, I like it a lot.

[Markus Jais]

Beautiful shot of this little fellow. Great sharpness. I like the head angle.
I agree with the others on the shadow below the bird.

Markus

[Bill Dix]

Beautiful feather detail, and I love the complimentary BG color. Agree with adding just a tad to the left, at least. Well done.

[Lorant Voros]

Agree with the suggestions for improving the image, but you captured this bird very well. Love the detail, HA, colors and BG. Well done.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Just a great looking bird. I agree about the shadow, at least the little proud part
should be easy to remove.

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Thank you all for the kind feedback. The image is uncropped and hence no more room to the left is available. :o Should have gotten it right in the camera... :)

Best, JR

[Ilija Dukovski]

Thank you all for the kind feedback. The image is uncropped and hence no more room to the left is available. :o Should have gotten it right in the camera... :)

Best, JR

It is important you did not clip the tail and left just a bit of space that you could select and free-transform
Select->Edit->FreeTransform. Then you should repair the texture which is easy here since the part in question is OOF. Here's my attempt, at the end I did few QMs on the transformed part to break any stretch marks or/and repeating patterns.

Cheers,