These two Western bluebirds happened to land on the same stalk for me on a recent hike....

The shot itself is very nice.

It could do with a little more crop to get rid of the bits of plants jutting in from the left and perhaps applying some dehaze in LR to really make the colors pop.

Beautiful birdie, love the "soft" BG color, it pops the subjects just right!

How fortuitous. Nicely captured.

Nicely captured. Beautiful.

I agree with StefanSC, less space on the left but not just to eliminate the branches on the far left, but to make both birds equally centered, it seems a little lopsided. Easy fix, not a problem. I love this shot though, they're beautiful and how often do you catch that?! Good eye!

Great job getting the pair together

Thanks to everyone for your comments and editing tips! I'll work on it a little and see if it looks better.
I'm working with NX Studio for now until I upgrade my computer.
Alan

AlanB313 said:

These two Western bluebirds happened to land on the same stalk for me on a recent hike....
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Beautiful shot! Well done

Thanks for the comments once again. We finally got the internet back after CA's big storms, so I tried to edit the original a little more. My tendency is to go light on editing, especially until I learn more. I'm still using NX Studio for now. (My plan is to get a new computer, add LrC, a used 5 drive NAS from my brother who's upgrading, then gradually...move to a z8. Probably in that order.)

My focus is a little off, I'm looking forward to the help a z8 can offer me with this, especially with the new firmware....in the meantime I'll keep trying. The extra cropping also might be augmenting the focus being off.

I cropped this a little more and changed a few sharpening settings, etc. I don't know what NX Studio's equivalent of dehaze might be.