Goldfinch

One from this morning at Pennington flash a vertical crop from a horizontal image.

Phillip.

D300 sigma 800 1/1000@f8 iso400.

PP in Capture NX & CS2
this is a vertical crop from a horizontal frame and just selectively sharpened saved as A4 then saved for the web

Hi Phillip,

Lovely image of a beautiful bird. I would maybe clone out the two spare perches though.

Chris.

Hi Phillip - nice capture on the new body

Agree with Chris on the cloning front - would make it a perfect picture

The finch is looking a tad 'casty' in colour, especially around the face, pebble panel a little out perhaps - cos that's just what happening here at the moment with this LCD of mine

Hi Andy alls I've done is just crop it and sharpen it I haven't really processed it as such it is just basically a sharpened crop straight from camera would say the colour is pretty much spot on, and the good old pebble once I've reduced the brightness a little like you suggested and recalibrated it is much better now I don't have to wear my sunglasses any more .

Phillip.

Nice. Agree on cloning the lower right blur but the spare purch doesn't bother me. Kind of helps balance the image to me. Tristan

Lovely Phillip. I'd clone the oof branch in the lower right, but like Tristan, I'd leave the other branch in to keep balance.

Vey nice portrait. My only nit would be to ask if the focus point is on the branch rather than the finch - the latter looks a touch softer to me - but that could be my dodgy work monitor...

Mark

Nice but I agree re the blob at bottom right. I looked at this several times trying to decide if it needs a touch more selective USM - still cannot decide, so that probably suggests it does!