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Kim, very nice composition, color, and lighting!

I don't usually like head-on bird shots, but I guess the simplistic

background helps. Comments?

Wow! Talk about a straight on, look into the camera, shot with perfect color sharpness and DOF.

He seems stunned, looking at you: attractive photographer? :)

 

Just curious, are u converting your JPG to sRGB before you post them?

Thanks, guys. Arthur, not sure what you mean. I work on the RAW images and save as a TIF file for printing, then resize and use "Save for Web" for PN.

I meant converting to sRGB, using Edit>Convert-to-Profile sRGB before save-2-web. Almost all monitors use sRGB as their ColorSpace. If u do not convert, the luminosity may be off when others view it. Just a thot ...

 

I think the straight-on 'pose' is pretty unique. Reminds me of, "Here's looking at you, kid."

I'll have to try that, Arthur, and see if it makes a difference. I know sometimes I am very disappointed with the way bright colors come out on PN.

 

Mark, I think he was trying to figure out what the heck I was doing!

This little guy appears to be helping out on the proper technic for taking this image. Great capture and timing. Well done and thanks for sharing.

Love your bird shots Kim, so different from ours here.

Thanks, David and Birte. We do get some pretty birds around here!

Kim, I have this vision of all these birds sitting around preening waiting to hop on to The Branch where you take their portrait. Then, 'Next!' . I do the same route as you in converting images for the web. I'll have to try the recommendation above too!

Colin, it's pretty much that way - right now we have about 2 dozen cardinals, 6 or 8 greenjays, 4 mockingbirds, 4 kiskadees, 4 or 5 titmouse(s) and various sparrows & finches, not to mention hundreds of doves. To get this shot above, I relocated ALL of the food to one area for a short while.