Eastern Meadowlark

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image recently along 10 Mile Grade Road in Hardee County, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED captured at 400mm
1/1000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +1 ISO 1100 AWB
Post processed in Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC 2018, cleaned up out of focus branch right hand side of image
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Nice capture. I like open bill and the blue colors at the top. I do see yellow tint at the top left which distracts me. Thanks for sharing

[William Dickson]

Very nice Joe. I really like the colours throughout. Lovely calling pose and I like how the feet are clinging on to the perch. My only wish would be for a rusty fence.

Will

[Arthur Morris]

Sharp, well exposed, and a great singing pose. Pointing the camera up a bit would have improved it as there is a bit too much room below the bird. Even better would have been raising the lens a few inches if possible (an reframe as noted above). This would have better separated the bird from the green at the top of the frame ...

[Abhijit Deshpande]

Lovely image. Nice colours too!

[Glenn Pure]

Cracker of a shot, Joe. I like this one lots. While the perch isn't ideal (and seems to have a blue tint to it?), the bird is really gorgeous in great light with lovely colour, tones and detail. Background is drop-dead gorgeous too. I'd be inclined to play with the compositoin by moving the bird down a bit and to the left. Very nice all the same.