Lilac Breasted Roller

[Loi Nguyen]

Another image from my recent trip to the Serengeti.

1Dx
500f4 II + 1.4X III
1/1250
f5.6
ISO-400
BLUBB Bean bag from safari vehicle.

Appreciate your comments on PP to make this image better!

Thank you

Loi

[Loi Nguyen]

Image did not load correctly, retry, sorry. Loi

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

I see two now. Cute bird and pose, love the feet and open bill. Light seemed a little harsh but still nice

[Satish Ranadive]

Fabulous image with wonderful colors and tack sharp bird. Love the pose with very nice HA,open beak, nice lights, beautiful BG and composition.
Would crop a silver line on the LHS and toned down the perch slightly.

Regards,
Satish.

[gail bisson]

Hi Loi,
I like the composition and the clean BG and simple perch .
Perfect head angle and open bill.
How big of a crop is this? Did you underexpose the image initially?What issues in your PP are you wondering about?
Gail

[Dan Brown]

Beautiful shot, Loi! I agree a little off the left, tone down the perch and I would add, tone down the head crown and clean the bill up a little. The BG is nice!

[Loi Nguyen]

Hi Loi,
I like the composition and the clean BG and simple perch .
Perfect head angle and open bill.
How big of a crop is this? Did you underexpose the image initially?What issues in your PP are you wondering about?
Gail

Hi Gail. this is about 50% crop from 18M down to about 9M. I didn't increase the exposure in PP, but increased the brightness a little. I will look into it, now I think it may be too bright and lack contrast.

Loi

[Loi Nguyen]

Here is a RP. Toned down the crown and perch with Shadow/Highlights, deleted the Hue/Saturation and Luminosity mask. Hope that it will be better. The light was a bit harsh at about 3PM. Loi

[Robert Holguin]

Very nice shot.
I really like the pose, very nice background, and nice perch.
Your last repost looks good.
Well done

[edwardselfe]

Light looks OK to me. For my taste, it's a little oversharpened, particularly around the eye, beak and breast.
Could be very nice though.
Might raise WB a little too.
Ed

[Girish Prahalad]

Hi Loi - lovely calling pose & HA, perch & BG. light is a bit harsh as you have mentioned but not a deal breaker.
details are excellent, but you may just want to reduce the sharpness a bit.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Very nice shot my only reservation is the highlights. the light may have been rather harsh at that time of day. Personally I would try playing with the initial raw conversion a little more to reduce the higlights at the initial stage, also check how much sharpening you may have applied in raw.