Watchful Allen's

[Michael Gerald-Yamasaki]

Greetings. Allen's are small, fast & very territorial. Hard to get in flight but luckily they return to a favored perching spot.



D4 300f/2.8 + TC20EIII (600mm) f/8 1/2000 ISO200 Manual (about +2.0EV in raw conversion) bright morning sun, no flash
tone adjustments & sharpening, light nr in raw conversion, not quite 50% crop

Relying on DR & exposing to the left for whites.

Thanks for looking.

Cheers,

-Michael-

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Michael, this fellow certainly looks small, and I like how his bill follows the line of the perch. Lovely iridescence, good DOF, and if this were mine, I would take a bit off the RHS to get rid of some of the OOF BG.

[Marina Scarr]

Lovely bird with nice details. Like the vegetation under the perch. Agree on some off of the right to help make the bird a tad more off center and remove more of the RHS vegetation.

[Chris Kotze]

Lovely looking bird and super colours.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

agree with crop suggestion. the right side can go IMO because it is behind the bird and has some distractions. Otherwise, a superb image with nice details and design.

[christopher galeski]

loverly image,agree on crop on the right.thanks.

[Rachel Hollander]

Nice details and color. Good suggestions above for comp.

TFS,
Rachel

[Karl Egressy]

Nice pose, perch, background and colours Michael.

[Michael Gerald-Yamasaki]

Stuart, Marina, Chris, Kaustubh, Christopher, Rachel, Karl,

Thanks much for the comments. Good idea on the crop.

Cheers,

-Michael-