A Portrait after bath

[vishaljadhav]

My visit to the north of India gave me one interesting bird group called the laughing thrushes made images of a few, saw glimpses of few , heard a few and still dreaming of the once i missed, one of the most active lot of bird , this one is the White throated laughing thrush and one of the common of this family .
Here i used a hide and was setup for the smaller birds however this guy came too near and i was with the 400 + 2x so decided to make a portrait. The bird was trying to shake of the water and was kindof vibrating it wings to get rid of water so have some motion blur there, however i wanted to try this out
5D MIII + 400 f2.8 + 2x tc M II
1/200 , f8, ISO 1000


Let me know your views, this was originally vertical and then went horizontal so there is canvas extended on left.

Critiques and comments welcome

[Randy Rimland]

amazing feather detail especially considering you used a 2x TC
great BG and a beautiful bird

[stuart wanuck]

superb detail nice portrait

[Jeannean Ryman]

Wonderful feather detail and background. You might try it with some off the right side bringing it to "drape" of the orange feathers and eliminating the V between the back and the photo's edge. Wonderful photo either way.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Vishal,

Great detail and colors throughout. The wet feathers are a plus!

I might take Jeannean's suggestion and try taking a bit off the right. Right now he's just a bit too centered and I don't think the right edge adds much.

Miguel

[dankearl]

I think this is superb, Vishal.
Nice IQ, color, detail, I agree a bit off the right.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent portrait with wonderful sharpness and nice colors. Love the wet feathers and blue eye.
I would go for tight crop.Beautiful BG too.

Regards,
Satish.

[Loi Nguyen]

Lovely portrait with great details and sweet BG. The comp works for me. Loi

[vishaljadhav]

Wonderful feather detail and background. You might try it with some off the right side bringing it to "drape" of the orange feathers and eliminating the V between the back and the photo's edge. Wonderful photo either way.

I tried the crop and it looks more decisive when this one is done, here is the Repost