Where's the Sun!

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Critique Style Requested: Standard

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Description

I took hundreds of shots this afternoon from around the birdfeeders. A tufted titmouse perched on a dead limn and gave me this pose. Luckily, the flash fired and I was able to get a small catchlight and some contrast in the feathers. Itis a Michigan winter and sunshine is usually not an option…

Specific Feedback

I had an OOf branch on the LH side and decided to selectively fuzz out that area with some Gaussian blur and a layers mask. I may try another attempt aas I feel that the LH side looks to contrived. What do you think?

Technical Details

Z9 600mm f4 (1/800 sec at f9.0, ISO 2000; fill flash at -2.0ev) Levels, crop for comp and branch removal as mentioned in Feedback Requests. Thank you for looking…Jim

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Jim, lovely shot of this cutie. The open beak makes this shot.
Nice catch!

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Very good, Jim. Detail in the titmouse is great. I see what you’re talking about on the left. The hint of structure on the right side makes a more interesting background and if you could back off on the blur to get that sort of look it would be very cool. If you work in layers, you might be able to just put the original underneath this and use a low opacity eraser brush to bring back some structure.

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I don’t see any issue with the BG; the colors complement the titmouse nicely. Pose, detail, and perch are all working for me. Good use of the flash. Nice one, Jim.

5

Hi Jim, very nice details throughout on the bird and I like the pose. The background looks good to me. These are such cute visitors to our backyard.