American Goldfinch

Gallery: AvianPosted May 9, 20173,480 views12 comments

I found this male Goldfinch working hard looking for seeds. Cropped from a horizontal, almost full frame top to bottom. I de-saturated the yellow by -5 because the color looked so bright. It looks natural to me now, let me know if you have an opinion.

Thanks for looking, comments & suggestions are always appreciated!
Large image provided for best detail.
Canon 70D
Sigma 150 – 600 C @ 562
1/1000
f/9 Aperture Priority
ISO 500 HH
Processed RAW image with Lightroom 5.7, CS5

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by David Schoen on May 9, 2017 at 6:44 PM

I really like this. I like the pose and the perch. and the color works really well against your darker background. The open beak is a plus. I think you were wise to decrease the yellow saturation. The sensors seem to exaggerate the yellow as I have found out with my most recent post and some Goldfinches.

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Comment posted by John Robinson on May 9, 2017 at 6:54 PM

That's a gem ! Bird , perch (Evening primrose ?) and background. Well positioned in the frame.
Small nit-Logo would be better in clean area . Thats a real nit !! sad

John

Registered on March 2, 2008, 535 Posts, 2453 Comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on May 9, 2017 at 7:46 PM

Looks great to me! Nice pose, very fine detail, and interesting perch.
Saturation looks perfect from here.
Sandy

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Comment posted by Jefferson Silva on May 9, 2017 at 8:05 PM

Beautiful, Steve.
Everything works well, bg, perch, birds position. Great image.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on May 10, 2017 at 6:01 PM

The yellow does look pretty warm, Steve, but it's well within the range of yellows I've seen in this species. Excellent detail and a good job on the exposure.

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on May 10, 2017 at 10:15 PM

Nice clean and sharp image Steve. I like the complimentary BG in this one. Nice work!

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Comment posted by Jerry Austin on May 11, 2017 at 10:02 AM

Really nice. Colors look spot on to me.

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Comment posted by Bill Leggett on May 11, 2017 at 3:01 PM

Steve, this is a nice clean, sharp image of this little guy in the open and in pleasing light. For those like me favoring a natural environment, I appreciate that you didn't clone out the cobwebs as some might be tempted to do.

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Comment posted by Kathy Snead on May 13, 2017 at 9:12 AM

Very nice goldfinch, excellent color and feather detail. I like the fact as well that all of the destabilization was left in, including those cobwebs!!

Registered on April 6, 2017, 104 Posts, 397 Comments

Comment posted by Nate Chappell on May 13, 2017 at 2:59 PM

Super goldfinch Steve, love the pose, exposure, lighting etc. devil

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Comment posted by Steve Thompson on May 26, 2017 at 5:27 PM

Thank you editors!

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Comment posted by Jenaya Launstein on June 1, 2017 at 1:00 PM

Wonderfully captured! Your post processing looks spot on, and the yellow looks quite natural now so I can't imagine how bright it looked before haha. I usually see several American Goldfinch in the summer, and hope to capture one as nicely as you did here.

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