Backyard Blackbird

[Dean Graham]

Here's a female red-wing taken after an ice and snow storm. Canon 50D - 600 f4 w/ 1.4 ext. 1/500th @ f9 ISO 800

[Doug Brown]

Nice pose. Exposure looks good. The bird looks somewhat oversharpened on my monitor. And I would remove the rusty-colored twig behind the beak. Perhaps a little more canvas on the right.

[Bill Dix]

Beautiful pose, HA, and colors against the snow. Doug's comments nailed it. Habitat is very nice except for the twig Doug mentioned (and while at it, I might be tempted to remove the small OOF ice-covered twigs at L and UL of the bird. With those adjustments and a bit less sharpening this is a real keeper in my book.

[Fabs Forns]

Yes, the puffed ball looks a bit oversharpened and the BG is taking away from the image.

[Dean Graham]

Thanks for the comments. I have a tendency to oversharpen (in Lightroom, no photoshop yet) that I'm working on. Failing vision isn't helping.