Portrait of a King

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

I photographed this Australian King Parrot in a friend's yard in the Blue Mountains. She is rather fortunate having had some 85+ species on her 11 acres nested in a beautiful little valley.

30D, 300mm f/4L IS USM, ISO800, f/5.6, 1/320th, HH, 430EX -2/3 EC, FF.

[Jay Gould]

Mate, I love every single feather, all of the parts, and the sum of the whole! Fantastic!! I will drive down and meet you for a shoot :D.

[Alfred Forns]

One fine looking bird Akos !!! Love the processing, reds looks just right and all razor sharp !!

[Joe Senzatimore]

Love the comp. and eye contact of this stunning image.

[Rob Drummond]

Wonderful detail and even light Akos

cheers
Rob

[Fabs Forns]

What a beauty, he is indeed a King. Agree on the great reds and incredible feather detail.

[arash_hazeghi]

Very nice portrait, nice BG too, love the details.

[denise ippolito]

Stunning details and comp. Beautiful BG. Colors are great. Nicely done Akos.:)

[Marina Scarr]

Love all the details you captured here. The crop works well and the colors are great. Like to see his mouth partly open. It really adds something.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Lovely bird and beautiful eye buddy. Nice bg and I am glad that this is FF. Congrats.

[Stephen Stephen]

Akos all the fellow needs is a crown. Lovely image here.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Good-looking bird, good sharpness, exposure control and eye contact. Sounds like a great place to photograph birds.

[Harshad Barve]

This is simply incredible image ,
TFS

[Stu Bowie]

Well exposed colours Bro, and this is really sharp. I like the clean eye, and overall, a pleasing image mate.

[Vida van der Walt]

Wonderful sharp detail in this Akos. Love the colours and soft light as well. Beautiful!:)

[Thonnaksar NOP]

Love the tight crop and the angle of this, mon ami. You manage to get the colour right (it's not very easy with the red one !).
Sharpness is really amazing !

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Thanks for all the kind comments. I always take advantage of a bird that is not perturbed by human presence. At least it makes up for the ones that frustrate the living daylights out of me. :) Re: reds, I looked at the histogram a number of times, especially the reds to ensure I stay within range. They are so vivid! Gorgeous birds. And this is a male.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Great work Akos, perfect reds, can't get better than this.

[Lorant Voros]

Akos, this one rocks for sure. Agree with the comments above; great light, color, sharpness...fantastic portrait. You mean this bird let you walk up to it and you didn't have to use any skills like you normally do? Well done.