Black Headed Grosbeak Male

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This bird is very difficult to get a Reasonable when you have a lot of feeders around. They seem to go straight from the feeders and not for the persons there lined around the feeder section. This one just wouldn’t cooperate to get his head in enough light and I did my best bring out the detail in the darker areas. I’ll keep trying.

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iso-160, 400 mm +1.4 X, 1000th, F8, Sony A1

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Hi David, yes they don’t always give us a nice head turn. Interesting pose though as he appears to be checking out the situation. There appears to be selection issues around the perch as there seems to be halos and artifacts.

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A nice look at the juvenile, David. He’s looking pretty scruffy. I can see some artifacts around the head where you tried to bring it up. I always have issues with that because the selection tools just aren’t quite good enough and they usually bleed into the background so very much increase or decrease in exposure tends to start showing artifacts. If you’re putting your selection on a separate layer, that can sometimes be fixed by very carefully going around the edges of the bird on that layer with the eraser tool.