Cape Weaver on aloe

[Victor Soares]

Haven't posted for a while, but took this one on Saturday and thought I would give it a bash. Myself and Dion sat and watched these guys along with some sunbirds, bulbus, white-eyes and mousebirds as they fed of the sweet aloes. This was taken at Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens, a short drive from my house.

Please give all honest crit and comments. Thanks.

Canon 40D
Canon 400L f5.6
ISO 400
1/2500
f5.6

*** Sorry for the edit *** but I just noticed that when I post this the coulours are alot blander and dull whereas the image I worked on in PS is bright and crisp ... any idea why? Please help so I can re-post wghat it should look like.

Thanks
Vic

[Steve Canuel]

Nice image Vic. Good details and nice warm colors. As for the color problem, maybe this is the reason?

http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=13064

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

I really like the eye contact,pose,composition and colors!!!

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Victor First thing I would check is the color space as suggested by Steve !!!

Sweet bird and perch Love the intense look Agree with your color assessment MIght consider checking he space and repost !!! I like it a lot !!!

[Fabs Forns]

Lovely bird and perch, I wish you had left the original to be able to compare.

The bird's eye are incredible!

[James Salywoda]

Beautiful colors, pose and details. Excellent Shot!!

[Amy DeStefanis]

I guess there might be a difference depending on the browser you are using. Don't I remember something about Safari being able to render Adobe RGB, but IE only uses sRGB? Or did I dream that? My posts look fine to ME, and I think I always use Adobe RGB, but maybe I that's because I'm using safari....??

Meanwhile, I think the image looks great Warm colors, but not bland by any means. Beautiful.

Amy D.

[Dave Phillips]

nice shot Victor, wonder blend of hues.
Amy, safari and firefox 3 ar both capable, but many do not use a color managed browser and
will see very wrong colors.....prophoto(huge gamut) much more so than Adobe RGB
example below:
http://i35.tinypic.com/15f24wo.jpg

http://i38.tinypic.com/25qprep.jpg

[Tony Whitehead]

Good shot, Victor. Agree re colour space as likely cause - sRGB version above looks accurate wrt plumage and flower colours

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Very beautiful bird Victor and lovely composition. As Fab mentioned already the eye contact is awesome !!! Amazing what a difference there is in color between the two posts.

[Glenn Bartley]

Really nice image! I like the perch and BG. And the bird is pretty cool too.

[Victor Soares]

Thanks everyone .... yep Dave that sRGB conversion is more like it !! I will change my settings and hopefully next one will be better.

[Simon Bennett]

Lovely subject, perch and background.