Blue Tailed Bee Eater Head Portrait

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

D800E
300mm f/2.8G VR II with TC-20E III
600mm
ISO 800
f/8 at 1/1000s
Manual mode
AF-C, Dynamic 9 points
Auto white balance
bean bag inside a car

Cropped from 7360x4912 to 2862x1923

Adjusting color, lighten the whole image, linear burn below the eye, curve, NR and selective sharpen.

Last image I need more contrast, not sure if this one look alright.
Higher resolution version: http://lunnj.smugmug.com/Animals/Birds/Blue-Tailed-Bee-Eater/28814959_Xp32kZ#!i=2454368334&k=Zn5xGK6&lb=1&s=O

All comments and suggestions are welcome.

[Colin Driscoll]

Lovely portrait with excellent detail

[MohsenVahedipour]

Excellent portrait with great IQ & BG.

[Lorant Voros]

Super detail, nice IQ and good composition. Well done.

[Diane Miller]

Contrast looks just right to me -- beautiful capture!

[Trey Barron]

Great job. Super details and colors. Excellent portrait.

[wendell westfall]

Perfect portrait . . .

[Marina Scarr]

The details in this portrait are just amazing!!!

[Jim Crosswell]

Great image! I like the IQ, details, colours and composition.

[Arthur Morris]

Ditto times 8. If it were mine, I would darken the pupil a bit.

[Sachin Saraf]

Amazing close up and details on this one...TFS

[PhilCook]

Amazing close up .......I dream of opportunities and imagery as good as this...stunning fine detail, my only initial though was the eye looks a tad bright, perhaps darken the pupil a tiny bit