Kiskadee

[Ivan Rothman]

Hi everyone. This is my first posting.

Kiskadee photographed at the Weaver Ranch, South Rio Grande Valley
Nikon D2X, 200-400mm f4 with 1.7X teleconverter at 650mm, f6.7 1/320 ISO 200

[Gautam Biswas]

Hi Ivan, Welcome. Your first image is a great one. Very sharp overall, well exposed and composed. The BG bokeh is great too.

[Peter Hawrylyshyn]

ivan -
like it a lot : perch, colors, pose, head position, soft BG

a couple of small nits - on my monitor, might have sharpened a bit more more for web posting and there are some ?dust spots? in BG which you could easily cloned out (eg - in green BG midway down, just behind the bird's back)

i'm curious to see what others will say about the cropping - i'd have cropped some more off the left side as to me the bird is too close to centre and a bit tight on top

a great first effort - keep them coming

[Mike Lentz]

Very nice, the open beak adds to the image. I'd also add a bit more room up top.