Fork-tailed Drongo

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

MK III
600mm f/4
1/2000
f/8
ISO 500

[James Shadle]

Gerrie,
This is a beautiful specimen.
The image is exposed very well, sharp and the background is beautiful as well.
I like the composition but feel that just a little more room around the subject would make this image even stronger.

I also notice a sharpening halo around your subject. Sometime Smart Sharpen will help to reduce the Halo, otherwise in a background layer, magic wand the background and add somewhere between .3 and .6 Gaussian Blur. Then adjust opacity to taste.

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Great picture. Sharp and lots of details in the blacks. And great background of course.

There is a small brown smudge right atop of the eye. Might be worthwhile to remove.

JR

[Harshad Barve]

lovely image , great pose and killer BG
agreed with James here
TFS

[Charlie VanTassel]

I like the pose and the head turn. I think that you did an excellent job of getting the details in the dark areas in some fairly bright light. Sometimes the Shadows/highlights command can also induce a halo. I try to keep it under 10 percent.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Great detail on the blacks at full sunlight. Nice pose and excellent bird. Is the BG a rock, lot's of interesting
rock colors in SA...

[Loukie Viljoen]

Good one , especially on the blacks.

[Kiran Poonacha]

beautiful, the Ha, the light and expo looks good, very clourful BG..congrats...

[Morkel Erasmus]

one of the best drongo shots I've seen Gerrie. James may have point on a tad more space and ditto the slight halo. overall superbly exposed and composed!

[Dave Barnes]

Super detail on the black feathers, but your PP on the perch lets you down, I think.
It cant be sharp on the feet and the perch he is standing on blured?
The stump also varies from detail to blur in a few areas? (Or am I seeing things?)

[Jóhannes Gunnar]

Amazing shot! I like the exposure and sharpness. The color of the background is lovely...

I would probably give it a little bit more space in the frame...

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Thank you for viewining & commenting everyone. It is much appreciated.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the sharpness, exposure control, BG and eye contact. I would give it a bit more room at the left and might have stopped down more in order to have the perch in focus entirely. Sharpening halo has been mentioned.

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Thank you for viewing & commenting Axel. It is much appreciated.