Another Cedar waxwing

I love the wing action too Joe, even because the rest of the Cedar looks very sharp. I like also the soft pastel renditions of colours on the bird, they really stand out against the vibrant greens in the bg. In my opinion it only lacks a bit of space above. The bird looks like he's looking at something that is out of the frame. Since this is a 60% crop I think you could easily do that, if that's your intention.


Paolo

Joe, great action shot. I see why you used the comp you did with the leaves below the bird ending the way they do. My eye still wants more room in front, but not sure what the best comp would be here. A tough one for sure. To me the colors look a bit over saturated. Also, the amount of noise in parts of the bird and BG are a bit more than I like to see. I have a 50D and would not shoot at ISO over 400 because of the noise issues. You might have been able to get your ISO down to 400 and still had enough SS for this shot. Just a suggestion pertaining to the 50D

I agree that it's a little tight on top, but this is still very pretty. The open wing pose is different and the distribution of the buds is nice. I found six waxwings the other day, but I blew out the highlights in every shot I was able to get without leaves in front of them! Nice capture.

I had nothing to work with from the top.Wish I did. I agree.

What a wonderful action you captured, Joe! Really nice image.

I know that if it is not there than you can not do much about it but enjoy what you got. This is still an enjoyable shot to say the least.

Dan

Nice pose and action. I agree it could benefit from a bit more room at the top. There's still a lot of noise in the image. How much did you need to adjust exposure in post processing - an underexposed image will really show noise following exposure increase in PP.

The major issue for me, though, is the saturation. Although this isn't as overdone as the previous post it is still way beyond natural. Almost half of the image is out of gamut. I think the greens could be pulled down 40-50 points - that a huge oversaturation problem. You don't say if you shoot in raw or jpeg - if jpeg I'd make sure the camera has any saturation settings turned down.

I'm still jealous and now even more LOL.. Nits noted but my biggest was wanting more room on top, but I love the leaves on the bottom and leaving that too would put you to centered sooo Ahh whatdoyado? Dunno. I still love the capture.

Great action, wonderful complimentary and interesting perch. Looks like serviceberry.

Gorgeous, Joe. Incredible pose and I like the included habitat. If you have any room above the bird, it might work better to put it back. With all that energy and concentration upward a bit more room there would help.