A wren preening a couple months back. Have frames with this one posing with the eye open, etc, but thought this was a 'peaceful' pose. In post, NR, corrected WB, cropped to ~60% of the FF.
I'm non the fence with this one. On one had the face is sharp and well angled, but on the other hand I find the splayed oof back feathers too much. I've never seen an image of a wren preening though, so that is a huge bonus as these guys do not normally stop for so long! Good perch and BG.
I never would have known their feathers turned to charcoal below what we see at the surface. The colors and BG are great, but this is a tough image for me because of the thin focal plan and mostly missing eye. I do applaud the effort to show something different.
Thanks all, much appreciated...figured this one would be 50/50. This one preened for about 5 minutes in front of me so was able to get an array of fun poses with the eye open as well...mostly the same DOF, but a couple at f/8 where I got lucky. Best,