Blackburnian Warbler

[Peter Hawrylyshyn]

Taken at Magee Marsh in Ohio a couple of weeks ago. The branches and leaves often clutter photos taken there, but here I thought they helped frame the warbler. Only corrected a slight yellow color cast in PS using Curves and applied some noise reduction using Topaz Denoise4
Canon 7D 400mmDO hand held ISO 500 1/640 f4
All comments welcome

[Ann Fiske]

Hi Peter,
I'll leave critiquing and suggestions to others who know. Just wanted to say it works for me. The head is sharp enough and nice detail in the birds feathers. The rest flows from there. I like it.

[Arthur Morris]

Dreamy, loverly male, but still a yellow cast. The repost is with a 20% Average Blur Color Balance. The bird is a bit lost in the foliage. Sharpness pretty good for hh-ing.

[Bryan Hix]

One of my favorite birds. I would love to get one in the open with a clean BG. But, since this is where they live I think this works just fine. I like what Artie did with the color.

[Peter Hawrylyshyn]

thanks everyone for the comments
Artie - my mistake : it was a slight blue cast i neutralized in the whites

I find Filter Blur Average won't always neutralize the whites when there's a predominant color ( eg - green here). That's why i'll use a Levels or Curves adjustment layer and work on individual RGB channels to neutralize the whites

In the end - it comes down to personal preference on the colors

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks for the lesson. But how come I like the overall color better in the repost than in the original post? :)