Eastern Rosella

[PhilCook]

Quick bird hunt this afternoon before more rain set in, found this Rosella snacking on some orange flowers, he didn't stay long ...as usual but rattled off maybe 1/6 doz shots before he departed as well as a small Honeyeater species. A fairly common Rosella species here, but generally the hardest to get near are my findings, very alert and shy.

Very dull weather with rain imminent, under shade of a tree, managed to sneak up on this one and got quite close by keeping a tree between myself and the bird, maybe about 20 feet or less....quite a lot of colour noise showing sadly.

Canon 7D + 500 f4 + 1.4 x TC....700mm, f7.1, i/250, ISO 800, -0.3EV....flash used, hand held by leaning lens against tree trunk.....tiny crop to tidy leaves on edges, but decided to leave the rest of flowers and foliage in

[Randy Stout]

Phil:

A riot of colors here for sure. Nice flash use. I like how the flower colors play with those of the bird.

To my eye, the bird isn't quite sharp on the face/eye region.

I would remove the thin red thread exiting the frame from upper left flower.

Pleasant BG color.

Cheers

Randy

[Sachin Saraf]

Phil beautiful colors and BG..head looks very soft and agree with Randy about removing the red thread...This one deserves another attempt of PP to make it better.

[Satish Ranadive]

Phil,
This is magnificent image. Excellent colors,great pose and lovely BG. Loved everything in the frame.I have added one more to my BPN folder.

[jack williamson]

Very beautiful bird. Good points by the others, a little more sharpening on the head and this is fantastic. Love all the colors in this including the BG.

Jack

[Lorant Voros]

This is a colorful bird! I guess you had some saturation challenges during PS. Really nice flash work . Love the flower eating, colors, the comp and BG. I find the eye a bit soft. Well done.

[dankearl]

Agree about the sharpening and it looks like you just did not get focus, but if you can sharpen, it is a real winner!

[Robert Holguin]

Real nice shot. Beautiful bird. I like the action captured, love the colors, great background, teriffic flash work, and agree on the softness of the head.
Well done.

[PhilCook]

This is a colorful bird! I guess you had some saturation challenges during PS. Really nice flash work . Love the flower eating, colors, the comp and BG. I find the eye a bit soft. Well done.

extra
No, not really any color problems in PS, color is as it was straight off camera. Agree about the eye, but sharpening created more noise so it wasd a toss up between sharper or grainier...cheers Lorant

[laurie golden]

Everything in the photo works well together. I agree that a little more sharpening on the face and maybe noise reduction on the background would be the only adjustments I would try, but looks good the way it is.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

A gorgeous riot of colors indeed. bg, framing, flowers, subtle head turn, it has it all.
Very nice flash work. Incredibly beautiful bird. It is a bit soft, but it's so good that it does deserve some TLC.

[christopher galeski]

very nice Phil,great colors,like thBG,the bird is beautiful but a bit soft,thanks.

[Ken Watkins]

Marvelous colours here, although not entirely sharp, still remarkable

[Layton E Parham]

I would like to see more space around the bill, cheerful bright colors.

[Karl Egressy]

Wonderful picture, fantastic colours and detail.