Northern Cardinal

[Joel Eade]

Back yard set up using a feeder

1D MKIV
700mm
ISO 1600
f/5.6
1/250
580 EXII at 1/64 manual power + Better Beamer

Cloned a small branch off the perch at the bottom edge of the frame, removed flash catchlight and brightened the iris slightly. Gaussian blur and CS5 NR on BG.

[dankearl]

That is really nice. Nice comp and very attractive color combo.
Well done.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Joel

works well as presented.

congrats Andreas

[christopher galeski]

very nice image,nice BG,nice pose,good eye contact.thanks.

[Satish Ranadive]

Fabulous image with nice composition. Loved the pose and colors of the bird.

[Shawn Zierman]

Attractive image. Solid job getting this backside view, and the red on green
color scheme works well. I like the background variation with the yellows too.
The perch is the weak spot here imo., quite bland, with not much going for it
in the way of character.

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful portrait, great pose and colours.