Cedar waxwing

[gary rouleau]

Santa Fe New Mexico.
Reflected light from a pond below gave the most incredible colour to this guy.

Canon EOS-1D Mark II N
Lens (mm): 600
ISO: 200
Aperture: 4
Shutter: 1/500
Exp. Comp.: 0.0

[Kaushik Balakumar]

nice image. looks a bit noisy though...

rgds,
Kaushik

[John Chardine]

Colours are really nice. I think you need to bring out more detail around the eye and face (if you have any detail there).

[Jim Poor]

Definitely an interesting color scheme to this one. The light on the bottom of the perch is nice too. A little more detail on the black eye mask would be great.

There looks like a little fringe around the bird, I don't know if it is a sort of rim light or a leftover from processing with selections.

I wish the bird had looked just a little less directly at the camera. Head on, straight down the bill images don't really work for me unless they are showing some really interesting activity to go with.

[Fabs Forns]

Nicely composed, Gary, but the colors look too dark an unreal to me. Did you use a lot of blue increase? Even the feet look blue to me.

[Jim Neiger]

An interesting look from this bird. It seems a bit contrasty and noisy to me.

[gary rouleau]

Thanks for the suggestions. I think the blue light came from the reflected pond light which then reflected back as well from the tree above him. He almost looked saintly aglow in this beautiful light -and with most saintly visions -he was gone before you knew it.
Thanks again.