Great Reed-Warbler.

[Pieter de Waal]

Mostly inhabits reed beds around water and not easy to get with clear BG.

50D/EF500f4+1.4 f5.6@1/1250 iso640 EC 0 - Almost FF crop from horisontal, removed BG reed.

C&C allways welcome.

[Arthur Morris]

Loverly bird, perch, pose, soft light and BKGR. I think that a bit more sharpening might be in order.... And a good head angle to boot.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Love the diagonal, slim perch, the bird with perfect HA and the comp. Would've possibly traded SS for more DOF. Very nice image. TFS.

[Robert K Griffith]

Great shot! The pose is fantastic. There's a lot of detail in there that could come out even more with a little more sharpening. Maybe dodge the eye a bit?

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Pieter, good comp to suit the pose, and I like the soft light and detail. Lovely smooth BG too.

[RakeshDhareshwar]

Great sharpness and pose here !! A bit more DOF would have been better .

[Pieter de Waal]

My apologies for the late response but I have been unable to connect to BPN for the past week, a routing problem my ISP informs me, don't quite understand it but most frustrating.

Thanks for your feedback and comments. Arthur I am a little wary of oversharpening but in this case the image was improved with some USM and Robert the dodge helped. I was going to repost the reworked image but too late now.

Sidarth and Rakesh thanks for the advice will be paying more attention to settings for future shots.