Red Vented Bulbul

[Adithya UN]

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It was a tough job to isolate the cactus from the bird. I had to try a lot of angels and compositions till i made the type of image i wanted.Comments and critics are welcome!!!

EXIF:

Aperture: F8
Shutter Speed: 1/1320 sec
ISO: 400
Exposure type: Manual
LEns: Canon 300mm F2.8 L IS and Canon 2x Extender
Camera: Canon 40D

[Tony Whitehead]

Lovely BG and nice pose. DOF has covered the bird well. Light angle is challenging as it is casting shadow on the right side. This would have been a great opportunnity to use some fill flash. Pity you couldn't eliminate the blurred cactus branch in front of the perch. I would be tempted to burn in the cactus a bit and shadow/highlight may open up a bit more detail in the dark tones of the bird.

[Scott Frye]

I like to be able to see the detail in the black eye coming from the black head. I agree with the bright cactus being a bit of a distraction. Maybe a different crop would take some of the cactus away

[Daniel Cadieux]

Majot points covered by Tony. You were indeed in a tough situation. Moving left would introduce more of the FG OOF cactus and moving right would worsen the light angle. Pretty neat BG!

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

the head looks a bit dark but I Iike the pose and the bg`s color