Motif: Great Kiskadee

[Jeff Parker]

Canon 7D
600mm
1/2500 sec
f/4
ISO 400

[Daniel Cadieux]

Good theme image with the take-off pose. Nice far wing and neat BG. Blacks on the face look rather blocked (not sure how recoverable they are in post), and I wish for less aroom above and more below.

[Doug Brown]

I'm going to second everything Daniel said here. Underexposed blacks can be tough to bring up with the 7D.

[Arthur Morris]

Way wicked pose. I'd take a crack at opening up the face. Otherwise ditto Doug's ditto of what Dan said. :S3:

[Jeff Parker]

Don't know why the face got so dark. Try this.

This was one of my entries in Coastal Bend Wildlife Photography Contest, so no adding canvas.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice repost...I'm glad you had some detail in there to recover

[Arthur Morris]

Jeff, Well done on the repost. The simple act of creating a JPEG increases contrast making the WHITEs whiter and the BLACKs blacker.