Black- Collaed Barbet at Nest

[Loukie Viljoen]

This on was feeding a nice fat fruit beetle to the chicks, a bit tight, but in transparency days you wanted to use every grain of silver halide that Kodak provided. EOS IV, 100 - 400 mm lens, scanned, I will learn to add canvas top, bottom and left.

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Loukie I like it at eye level as presented and great having a meal. Head position is fine so is the exposure. As presented looks over sharpened difficult to see at this small size, would go to 800 pixels !!! Good scan !!!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Beautiful bird and moment captured. It does look a bit oversharpened and would be nice to see at 800 pixels.

[Fabs Forns]

Fantastic bird and light, Loukie.

There's a thread in the Edu resources Forum on how to add canvas:

http://birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=834

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Very striking image Loukie and I agree about it looking a tad oversharpened . Love it that you were able to capture this at eye level and the bug in the beak is a real bonus. Fine work Loukie !!!

[Dan Brown]

Nice scan Loukie!! I would like to see this at 800x800. What scanner are you using? I am thinking about upgrading.

Dan Brown

[Arthur Morris]

Wonderful bird and bug bug but too small, over-SATed, and way over-sharpened. Back to the basics!

[Loukie Viljoen]

The scanner was Nikon Coolscan 4000ED, now superseded by the 5000, Regards

[Dan Brown]

Thank you Loukie. Dan