Golden crowned Sparrow

Still a good image, but it would be nice to see the whole head portrait to get the beak away from the body.

I like the diagonal in the composition - I agree it would be nice to see the beak in profile.

There seem to be some dark smudges in the bottom left corner - also the color in that corner doesn't quite seem to match the rest of the sky (I could be wrong - I'm viewing it on a poor laptop screen). It looks like there is some horizontal banding in the sky in the other portions of the image but there is none in the bottomleft quadrant. I'm guessing that you cloned out some twigs in that corner, but I'm perplexed at what causes the banding the sky.

richardkchapman wrote:I like the diagonal in the composition - I agree it would be nice to see the beak in profile.

There seem to be some dark smudges in the bottom left corner - also the color in that corner doesn't quite seem to match the rest of the sky (I could be wrong - I'm viewing it on a poor laptop screen). It looks like there is some horizontal banding in the sky in the other portions of the image but there is none in the bottomleft quadrant. I'm guessing that you cloned out some twigs in that corner, but I'm perplexed at what causes the banding the sky.

I see some dust spots in the lower left, but I don't see the banding that you're seeing.

Fantastic Richard. A keeper for sure.

RichardMittleman/Gon2Foto wrote:

richardkchapman wrote:I like the diagonal in the composition - I agree it would be nice to see the beak in profile.

There seem to be some dark smudges in the bottom left corner - also the color in that corner doesn't quite seem to match the rest of the sky (I could be wrong - I'm viewing it on a poor laptop screen). It looks like there is some horizontal banding in the sky in the other portions of the image but there is none in the bottomleft quadrant. I'm guessing that you cloned out some twigs in that corner, but I'm perplexed at what causes the banding the sky.

I see some dust spots in the lower left, but I don't see the banding that you're seeing.

I just checked again on my desktop machine and I don't see them either - I think it must have been an artifact introduced by using remote desktop (which I think compresses images before sending them). Sorry for the false alarm!

Richard, A very good shot of this species. It could go a bit brighter.

Detail and sharpness are good ...
Great comp too, Richard! :roll:

Sweet! crisp sharp, great light and details, great comp, good perch and BG the only nit is the hed turn.

Nice documentary shot, I whish w=it was mine.

I think it is a very nice image. Wonderful detail and diagonal line. Thanks for sharing.

Great shot.