Black Dimond! | Common Starling

[Trivedi Vatsal]

http://www.indianaturewatch.net/images/album/photo/5132476114c6ce39ce4cc8.jpg

Camera : Canon 50D
Lens : Canon 100-400L IS
ISO : 400
Speed : 1/800 sec.
Aperture : F/7.1

Taken at Jamnagar (Gujarat), India.

Would love to know your suggestions on this.... :)

[Arthur Morris]

Sweet light, sharp, and a very good head angle. A very pretty image for what looks like a garbage dump.... :) I would eliminate the four white specks on the burlap along the bottom frame edge.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice colours on the starling, and good comp. Although I find the BG mildly distracting, I do find the patterns and colours quite intriguing. There is blown area alonng the top edge that could be fixed by cloning some neighbouring pixels.

[Bill Jobes]

I love the bird's pose and detail. I concur with the background comments, and would suggest, as long as you're cloning, to soften, color-over or at least reduce the brightness of the large white spot above the head. The BG hues overall are very appealing, in spite of their material origins.

[Juan Aragonés]

The background is a bit distracting but, in this case, I think that works quite good because adds information about the habitat of the species with details enought to think that is a lot of garbage. Composition, pose, light ans sharpness works fine for me. Thanks for sharing :)

[Trivedi Vatsal]

Thanks a lot Arthur sir, Daniel sir, Bill sir & Juan sir for your kind words. As you all noted here the BG was garbage full of plastic bags. The bird was searching food there & I got chance to click it. Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I'll try to work on that & will repost it. I'm still on the learning phase & your suggestions will help me a lot.... :)

[Nico Steenberg]

Great eye contact and exposure Subject is sharp with good colours. Nit covered. Well done

[RakeshDhareshwar]

The bird is very sharp and the exposure looks spot on . The blown highlights distract , but the other colours do add to the image !