FEMALE CARDINAL

Any and all comments/critiques welcome. Thanks!

Beautiful bird but the image is not sharp. Photographing small birds like this is quite difficult as they are very mobile and getting sharp pictures can be tricky both in terms of focusing and freezing the action. With a wide aperture you have very little depth of field to play with, but if you use a smaller aperture you lose shutter speed. I'm assuming this is a digital image so try increasing the ISO to get the highest shutter speed you can.

Sorry Don I almost forgot, use a tripod too if you can.