African Darter

[Dumay de Boulle]

Canon 1D MKIII
Canon 500 f4 L IS
AV f5.6
TV 1/1600
Exp +0.33
ISO 800
AWB
RAW file processed in CS5 iMac

Crits and comments appreciated as always:S3:

[Geoff Warnock]

pose, sharpness, background, exposure.... all look perfect to me!

Would you mind sharing some more techs? I'm impressed that the whole bird is sharp (wingspan) at f5.6, unless it was quite far away to get a larger DOF. If it is cropped therefore, the IQ has held up fantastically. My other thought was that maybe the angle of the wings has helped fit them into the available DOF.

[Ofer Levy]

Excellent shot!! Would maybe tone down the bright areas on the neck.

[Kim.K.K.Lam]

Wonderful shot and nice light.

[Stu Bowie]

Absolutely nailed Dumay. Good flight angle, well exposed, and overall, nice and sharp. Just love that typical Mankwe BG. Well captured.

[Hendri Venter]

Tack sharp detail and lovely flight pose. Splendid image Dumay.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Dumay, one heck of a shot...angle, light, BG, IQ, head position, wing spread, comp.....excellent all around.

If you have done some sharpening on the bird, I'd say ease it up a bit on the near wing as jagged edges are being seen. Rest of the bird does not look oversharpened.

[Morkel Erasmus]

lovely pose and exposure here bud! agree on toning the neck brightness

[Colin Knight]

Agree with the brightness on the neck. Looks like the head is angled away ever so slightly. But all said and done, this is a stunning image!

[arash_hazeghi]

super pose and details, love the light and BG. A+ flight shot

[Jeff Dyck]

Superb Dumay. The light is just beautiful.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Very elegant image, Dumay. Lovely light, pose and bg. Stunning image indeed.