Southern Masked Weaver

[Dumay de Boulle]

Taken at Pilanesburg Nature Reserve Mankwe Hide. The blue BG is water.

Canon 7D
Canon 300 f2.8 L IS + 2x Ext
f7.1
1/1000
ISO 640
Exp +0.33
Matrix metering
AWB
MRAW processed in CS4

Crit please as I want to improve

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

I really like how the light angle has created so much definition in the feathers. Incredibly sharp shot.

One suggestion is to reduce the blue sat a bit. The other is to leave a little more room all around.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Good-looking bird, the eye color is striking. Sharpness and look-back pose work well, too. If the sun would have been behind you, the bird would have been more evenly lit.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Thank you for taking the time to look and comment. Did you mean desat the blue channel on the bird? Axel I could only move further left in the hide, no more space to move right:( Would a flash have worked in this situation to evenly light the bird?

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Dumay, no, I meant reducing the color sat of the water a bit.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Is this better Kaustubh?

[Dumay de Boulle]

sorry, didnt upload with my last post

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

I like it better. With the OP, I thought the blue was a little overpowering. But lot of these things are personal taste. nothing right or wrong. Only you can tell what the accurate water color was :-)