Robin - Bad Hair (Feather) Day

[Pete Woods]

Hi all not been posting much so thought about time I did....
Taken 5 Feb 2010 in the garden (cold dull day)

Canon 1Dmk3, EF500, iso800, 1/500th sec, f6.3, tripod. Processed in DPP and CS4.

All CC gratefully received....:)

[Mital Patel]

beautiful angle and i like the fluffy look

[Jean Chang]

I love the disgusted look on its face! Really cute pose and nice and sharp.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the soft angle and fluffed-up pose and would run NR on the BG. How did you sharpen the bird? Some areas look noticeably sharper than others.

[Gary Jones]

The fluffed pose makes for something different. Good DoF and the BG colour compliments the bird. BG does need some NR.

[Pete Woods]

I like the soft angle and fluffed-up pose and would run NR on the BG. How did you sharpen the bird? Some areas look noticeably sharper than others.

For this image in CS4 I made a duplicate layer, changed the layer to Luminosity then run USM at 125%, 0.3, 0 across whole image, one pass.

[Stu Bowie]

This guy sure looks upset with that expression. Love the ruffled pose, together with the orange chest. Another vote for some NR on the BG.

[Steve Kaluski]

Glad to see you removed the OOF branch running across the top Peter from a previous posting.

Regarding the position of the Robin, it sits uneasy in this format as there is a lot of dead space to the rhs and a vertical crop would have been better IMHO, plus, because it is just too close to the foot of the crop its almost feels like it is slipping off, out of view.

Totally agree about reducing the 'noise factor' and the Robin is still over sharpened for me, however you have exaggerated the noise by your application technique of USM. The banding BG also needs some attention, to give a cleaner BG.

Better luck next time.

[David Thomasson]

What a wonderful expression of outrage!! :D He seems to be saying, "I told them twice, NO STARCH!"

[Manjesh Lingamurthy]

Hi Pete

No doubt a beautiful shot. You will make it look way better, by decreasing the dead space on the right side and little bit from the top side, so that the bird comes to the center, drawing the eye to just the bird.

Manjesh