cedar waxwing

[Gary Hamilton]

Canon 1D MK III
Canon 300mm f/2.8
2x teleconverter
ISO 200
1/400
f/5.6

[Brendan Dozier]

Cool looking bird, Gary, and like the pose with the berrys and surrounding habitat. Looks like you handled the harsh light pretty good. The body of the bird looks a bit smooth, wondering this may be from some NR, and there is slight blur around berrys and beak area, so perhaps faster shutter speed.

[arash_hazeghi]

nice pose and the berry adds to the image, agree the bird looks quite soft and lacking in details, too much NR perhaps.

[Stu Bowie]

Now thats just plain greedy - two berries in the beak. With regards to the above comments, I would be interested to find out how you processed this with regards to selection and NR.

[Peter Dexter]

I'm curious about the cause of the smoothness too as it sometines happens to me. I sometimes think it´s high iso but cerainly not in this case.

[Gary Hamilton]

I just did a general noise reduction and sharpening of the whole image. I find that with cedar waxwings their feathers often have a very flat appearance. The waxwing was just about to swallow the berries so a faster shutter speed would have helped with the slight blur there. Thanks for your comments.