I removed an out of focus bird in the lower left corner of the image. Let me know what you think.
Canon EOS 50D and Canon EF600mm f/4L IS
ISO 800
1/640sec at f/4
I removed an out of focus bird in the lower left corner of the image. Let me know what you think.
Canon EOS 50D and Canon EF600mm f/4L IS
ISO 800
1/640sec at f/4
Agree with Stuart on the crop. Lovely pose and eye contact as well as a very pleasing perch, Many thanks for sharing Rodney.
My vote for tight as well , but still a fine image. I think the bird could be just a bit lighter. Love the BG.

Lovely BG and pose, nice perch and BG, and very sharp too. TFS
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Interesting combination of colours.
Pose is very nice and very sharp.
May need some nr on bg.
Really nice
Liked the exposure, DOF and the head angle. Details are good but looks a bit oversharpened. One more vote for NR on BG. Thx for sharing. We dont get to see many of this bird.
what was used for the BG
Rodney, I didn't know these birds had such great color! I like the detail in the rock and the color of the BG. I did notice the noise however, and vote for some more NR.:)
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Thanks for all the comments. I did apply some noise reduction, but the problem may be when I sharpened the picture I also sharpened the background. I will try to reprocess it when I get a chance and apply a little sharpening to the bird only. And maybe I can test out some noise reduction software. I was just using photoshop to reduce the noise as explained in the Digital Basics File. Maybe I can play around a little more in Photoshop to see if I can get some better results.
The background of the photo is grass.
When I took the picture I only had a chance to fire off a few frames when the bird landed before he flew off so I did not have a chance to back up. For this repost I added some canvas to the bottom. I also ran some noise reduction using the neat image plugin for photoshop. So if you get a chance to look at the repost let me know if the noise levels are better and if the extended canvas looks all right.
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