Hoopoe

[Petros Petrou]

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I am glad I managed to get close to this one.
Canon 7D, ISO 400, 1/1250 sec, f/8, EV +0.33. This is full frame.
All comments are welcomed and appreciated.


Petros

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[gail bisson]

This is lovely!
Great light and BG. The BG has some great colors in it. Excellent IQ.
You have a nice head turn and terrific DOF.
If this was mine I would be tempted to clone out the branch that is touching the birds' shoulder but that is a very minor personal preference nit!
Gail

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Petros, one of the best hoopoe images I have seen, and love the setting. I like the light, colours are spot on, and the BG is sweet. If this were mine, I would try and remove the OOF branches at the back of the main perch.

[Markus Jais]

Wonderful shot of this beautiful bird. Great light, colors and background.
I like the perch.
Markus

[Iain Barker]

I really like this image petros.
The colours are great. I agree on maybe cloning out parts of the perch but do like it as it is.

[Loi Nguyen]

Nice and strange looking bird, good light, colors and sharpness, good BG. The perch is just a bit busy, but there is not much you can do about it. Loi

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Fantastic bird, ligha and pose. I do like the clean BG very much and sharpness. Keep it up!

[Nick Palmieri]

Nice pose and perch. Agree with others about branch touching shoulder and OOF focus branches... but either way beautiful job!

[jack williamson]

I agree with Stuart, this is one of the best Hoopoe images I have seen, clean the perch up some ( the OOF parts, the one touching the shoulder) and this is a killer image! Awesome BG.

Jack

[John Rowell]

Very nice image, agree with previous comments on the perch. Terrific overall IQ

[Frank Schauf]

Very nice pose and colors.

[Grace Scalzo]

This is beautiful , love the bg and perch. A bit of clean up here and there would not hurt.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Awesome!! The comp, perch, and BG all super. Nice details and colours. Too bad about those OOF branches (personally I would not have the patience to remove them in post) and although the HA is OK a bit more turn towards us would have been killer. Still a fantastic image, well done!!

[Melissa Groo]

Yes on all the accolades as above. Fantastic portrait of this gorgeous bird. I too wish for a slight head turn towards us, but I would be absolutely thrilled to have captured this.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Fantastic all around for me! Some good tweak suggestions if within your ethics but this is just super!

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the light, pose, sharpness, BG and composition. I would like to see this bird one day. Very well done!

[mohammad reza shahab]

Great light, colors and good comp.very nice BG & perch.