After decent rain for a couple of days, the termites were about. A sight to see Tawney Eagles, Bateleurs, and hunderds of Abdim Storks trying to catch the small prey in the dry riverbed.
Nikon D3S with 600 f4
1/800 @ f6.3
+0,3 EV
ISO 1000
C&C welcome.
Internet down at home, sending from laptop at work.:2eyes2:
Andre
04-15-2014, 08:22 AM
shane shacaluga
Nice stare straight into the camera. I like the ruffled feathers on the head with good detail. Nice OOF BG too
For some reason i end up cross eyed myself when I stare into the birds eyes :D
TFS
04-15-2014, 08:32 AM
Daniel Cadieux
Good exposure, neat stare, nice background. Focus is well attained but I would apply a small round of sharpening for web presentation to get the fine detail a bit crisper. Square comp works well enough.
04-15-2014, 09:14 AM
Ritesh Nangare
Great shot with great eye contact,catch light, Details great close up view of the bird........
04-15-2014, 10:10 AM
Grace Scalzo
Nice frame, full of interesting details.
04-15-2014, 11:29 AM
Andre Pretorius
Thank you Shane, Daniel, Ritesh and Grace.
Daniel, after resizing for Web and resharpening for web, I backed off a bit on the layer opacity for the sharpening- I was told my images was over sharpened:eek3:.
Incidentally this was a LARGE crop, the IQ was retained with the D3S..
Image looks fine on MAC, does look a bit flat on laptop?
Thank you for comments!:cheers:
Cheers
Andre
04-15-2014, 01:03 PM
Stu Bowie
Hi Andre, great eye contact, and love the layered feather detail. Well exposed too.
04-15-2014, 04:30 PM
Rachel Hollander
Hi Andre - great stare, exposure and detail. It held up well to your crop.
TFS,
Rachel
04-16-2014, 08:25 AM
Satish Ranadive
Spectacular portrait with majestic look. Great feather details, beautiful BG and composition.
Regards,
Satish.
04-17-2014, 01:10 AM
Andre Pretorius
Thank you Stuart, Rachel and Satish for kind comments!:S3: