Another Tree Sparrow

This is another American tree sparrow from a series I shot through my infamous kitchen window last Sunday. This one has a more friendly looking pose and I did some additional processing to brighten the colors a bit. My goal is to have a DuraPlaq print made for my family room. I applied some luminosity masking and curves to expanded midtones, lights, and bright whites in order to pull some details from the light areas and put some pop in the red brown and green colors. Finally I used TK's make it glow for some final color pop. I adjusted the opacity down so that the change was apparent, but subtle. The effect brightened up the background. I also cropped the original by removing 20% to get the eye in the upper right third of the image. The light bokeh at the top of the image was toned down and blended with a Gaussian blur layer. K5 IIs, 300mm f4 (1/60sec at f6.3, Iso 640). Thanks for looking................Jim