perched beauty

[Rene Quenneville]

I found this fellow while walking around a golf course in the Tampa bay area a few weeks ago. Please give me your comments. I am eager to learn.
1/320
f/4
ISO 640
300 mm

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Hello Rene, just as you, I am eager to learn, what is kind of funny to me is that when I use an f/4 usually I don't get a very sharp image, may be part of it, but not all. In this one I can see a very sharp beak and every thing so I don't get it yet, may be I am too slow. ha ha ha

[Nancy A Elwood]

Hi Rene. I hope you do not mind that I worked on it a bit to see what might be better. What do you think? I mostly used Nik software Viviza to darken the BG and desaturate it a bit, then took it into NX and used some selective High pass sharpening.

[Jonathan Michael Ashton]

I think this is a good shot, I suspect there is a little more detail to be found by using shadows/highlights and perhaps a little more Smart Sharpen.
Jon