Silver-eye

[seaslug]

Visitor on the garden fence.

[Toddyh]

Nice and sharp Greg. That 400mm really is a good bit of gear.

[wigz]

Excellent shot Greg, good pose and nice and sharp. On first glance, the colour didn't look quite right but on a closer look it seems OK. Perhaps the contrast is a bit high or the bright background is throwing me off,.

I tried reducing the contrast a little. What do you think?



Here is what I did with Curves in Photoshop

[seaslug]

That looks ok too. I think the reason my original looks a bit different to what you might expect is because the bird is wet. It had just jumped out of my hanging bird feeder. I'll just follow up with a shot of that and you can better see the environment.

[wigz]

Yes that explains why I thought it didn't look quite right to me. It's a top shot.

[seaslug]

Bath time at my place!





As you can see the surrounding foliage is also pretty bright.

[Isac]

Lovely portrait of the tiny bird Greg. It's an image you could play with and change things up for different effects and that's a good thing.