Northern Cardinal

[Peter Farrell]

Sony A700, 70-400G @400mm, f8, 1/1250, iso1000, EC +1.0, HH, 50% of FF. PP in PSE8, exposure correction in camera raw, S/H, desaturaded reds, cloned out branches running behind bird, in front of bird and under perch, USM, reduced highlights in beak with burn tool. I'm not sure about the tail?

[Dave Mills]

Hi Peter, Nice subject in even lighting. Good job on the basic cleanup but a few areas could use further cleanup.
They are by the birds back,end of tail,chest area under beak and far right branch area needs blending...

[Alfred Forns]

Agree with Dave Could go to those areas zooming in for closer inspection !!!

[Bob Decker]

Good exposure and natural colors. Agree with the comments concerning blending the clone work a bit better. Not on the best monitor in the world at the moment but I think I'm seeing a bit of noise in the background as well. Might be this dirty, over-used, uncalibrated work station.

[Peter Farrell]

Thanks all for the comments. I think I need to clean my glasses as I thought i got all the clean up done. Good eyes Dave.
Peter

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Think you did a good job with the reds Peter. A cleaner perch would have been great, but boy I find it is tough to get a picture where everything is working.

[Gary Esman]

Like the lighting here and a great catch light! Looks like he could be n my backyard.

[WIlliam Maroldo]

Peter, good work. Even lighting, good exposure, and I like to see you playing around with ISO 1000! Also doing corrections in RAW a good idea, as well. These birds are hard to get with a clean background, I think they do it on purpose! Well done~regards Bill

[Mark Young]

The composition is very nice. The Cardinals are very good looking birds. I wish we had them here.

[Peter Farrell]

Thanks again for all your comments.
Peter