Northern Cardinal

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Description

A group of males and females were chasing each other around the undergrowth in woodland behind where I’m staying in NC. This male stopped for a few seconds, before resuming the chase. It’s great that such a beautiful bird is very common.

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Anything in the BG distracting?

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D500 + 150-600mm 1/500 f9 ISO 1000

ACR for Blacks and Whites, then Neat Image for noise and Smart Sharpen in PS. Cropping.

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A gorgeous bird with lovely detail!! The reds are handled beautifully!

I’d give anything to have them where I live.

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Excellent job on the reds in this iconic bird, Mike. The lighter tones toward the bottom of the vertical out-of-focus branch in front of the bird tend to draw my eye pretty strongly. I think if you could get it to mimic the upper half it would be ok.

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Hi Mike, nice reds on the bird and good look at the eye. I like the diagonal of the perch and bird. I could see toning down the background branches.

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Great capture, Mike. The color and composition came out very well. The soft background brings out the subject very well.