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Story Sequences Moderator and Wildlife Moderator
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Hi Gaby, a bee-eater that I dont have in my files - actually I dont have many bee-eater species in my files. Yep shooting from a car when one is all twisted inside out, isnt comfortable, but if you get the shot like this, its worth a bit of pain. Colours look spot on, love the leaning pose, and what a great eye. I do like that BG too.
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Impressive looking portrait of a bee eater, super looking in colors, there are subtle change in colors on this bird and handled very nicely
classic details and wonderful BG
makes it amazing image, i like it
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Great BG and a great portrait.
I find the sharpening just a tad too sharp for my taste. (I am probably the only BPN'er who would say this!)
I think this would have been even better had you been at F10 but am unsure as to what your ISO was and if you had the option to bump up the ISO or decrease the SS.
Would love this portrait in my files,
Gail
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agree with Gail. When you are that close and bird is steady, better to stop down to f/8 and smaller.
Great colors and well composed. Lots of impact. Must have been exciting...an opportunity to do headshots of such small birds does not around very often.Well done.
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Very nice portrait of a very small bird! I wish for a hint of head turn towards us.....but still a very nice image!
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Spectacular colors and beautiful comp. Worth the pain, as Stuart said (easy for us to say).
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Awesome colours and a well balanced portrait compositon and a nice uniform BG to make the subject pop. I agree a better head angle would have been nice, and I find the details coarse rather than fine...I know it is not a huge crop but that is the look the image has to me.
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excellent light and colors it does have a big pop factor with those brilliant colors, I agree HA could be better.
I don't think this image is lacking in DOF at all, but as Daniel mentioned details look coarse and a bit crunchy, most likely as a result of sharpening with a large radius.
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The colors are very natural and the flat BG makes this a good image. It is not always possible but a a slight turn of the beak towards the camera would make this even better.
Hiran
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Beautiful portrait, great details and colors.
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Thank you all for your kind comments, I agree with Daniel about the coarseness of the image, it bothers me a great deal and I must do something about it. This image was processed last year and I was quite happy with it at the time, last night I took the edited version and resized it then sharpened the bird again and posted it. I shall look at the RAW and re-process, in the past I used to flatten my images and cannot look back to see what I did wrong. Should I manage to fix the problem, I will repost.
Wishing everyone a great week-end,
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Wonderful head shot.
Love the colors, wonderfu background, and great comp.
Detail issue already mentioned.
Very well done.
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Beautiful portrait with beautiful colors,nice BG and composition.
Rest is already mentioned above.
Regards,
Satish.
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