Redwing male

[John Chardine]

Here's another try at a male Redwing taken this evening in Sackville, New Brunswick. I cloned the top of the perch because it extended over the red epaulet.

40D, 500mm F4, 1/200s, F4, ISO 640, +0.7 stop, from RAW.

[Robert O'Toole]

The quality of the light is fantastic and the details and the sharpness is the face is superb. I am not a big fan of square crops so as a pers pref I would crop some off the left side to make it more of a vert rectangle.

Robert

[Steve Canuel]

Great sharpness on the eye and bill. Looks like a tiny strip of hot red on the epaulet. Hard to not blow those out. LIke the BG too.
Steve

[Fabs Forns]

Great job on the cloning. Sweet light and background. Well done :)

[Juan Aragonés]

Excelent exposure here. Fantastic light, BG and details. I agree with Robert regarding the room at the right. Nice cloning job

[Del Cockroft]

Incredible light and BG.

[Arthur Morris]

EXC EXP control and sharpness. If he had leaned forward and displayed, would you have had enough shutter speed to freeze him? Good job on ending the reed...