Nella, our oldest daughter spotted the courser in the short grass on our way to the lake, I had a very impatient safari driver behind me, while I tried to photograph the bird. Late afternoon in good light, background quite busy.
Nikon D90, Nikon 200-400mm F4 VR
F4, S/S 1/1250, 200 ISO, cropped quite a bit & sharpened in PS.
Nice pose and perch, light looks good. The IQ is not great looks quite soft, white on the legs are also lacking detail... not sure what the RAW looks like but may be worth a re-visit.
I love being introduced to a new species.
Good composition and pose.
IQ ,as mentioned, has suffered from crop.
I am OK with the BG but would do a bit of Gaussian blur to get rid of the ground glass appearance.
Gail
Thanks guys, IQ is not to hot, can't do a lot about that now. Personally I would have liked to get lower, get the bird clear from the background. But the safari driver was putting a lot of pressure on me to get out of the way. I have another image which is slightly sharper, I will process a post.