Blue Jay

They sure are skittish! This is nice though shows a magenta cast. I think it would be stronger with the top and right cropped a bit.

Matt, a little fill flash would help with the harsh light. The magenta is very noticable. Nice headshot.

Jays are skittish, looks like you were able to get pretty close, though.

Greg's got some good advice, I'd agree with his critique.

If you want to try evaluating your image for color casts, a quick way is to test the whites. In PhotoShop, select the eyedropper and click on areas of the bird that are white. The Info Palette will give you the R G B numbers, and whites, in general, will read neutral, like 225/225/225. If any of the numbers are very different, you can do some adjustments, like with the Color Sampler Tool, to neutralize the whites to see if you feel that improves the overall image colors.

The backlighting actually works okay, the details of the bird on the side facing us is pretty good.

Lovely bird!!!

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Wish his head to be on the film plane, you know by now about the magenta cast, a small sharpening halo is present under his beak and on his back, skittish for sure!!, Congrats!!

Thanks for the feedback. I'm going to have to be more careful when scanning to check for a magenta cast. Heather, I'm not sure if I can do the process you described with PS Elements but I'll look into it. Thanks folks!
Matt H