Siberian Stonechat - Female

[Girish Prahalad]

Made with a Canon 450D + Sigma 150-500. Beanbag on car window.
F6.3 | ISO 200 | SS 1/800 @ 500mm. Av Mode | Eval
Levels | Crop | USM.

Comments & critiques most welcome.

[Randy Stout]

Girish:

Lovely soft light, complimentary colors, sharp, well exposed.

I could see a bit of cropping to show the bird off a bit better. I would consider starting with a crop from the right to just the right of the fork in the main branch, and then a balancing crop from top and left. I would clean up the few tiny leaves left in the lower right corner. I am away from my editing computer, so can't do it, but thought the idea on the crop came through.

Well captured.

Cheers

Randy

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Beautiful soft light, detail, and BG color. This is a small nitpick, but I see some halo below her beak and the lower edges of the branch. Extremely well done Girish.

[Karl Egressy]

The original looks very nice but my immediate reaction was: I should suggest Girish to move the bird up in the frame.
Then I saw the version of Randy's. I think that cut addresses it all.
A very pleasing image, Girish.

[Grace Scalzo]

Here is another possibility for you to consider. I like the shape of the cascading branch as it falls off into the lower left corner. (Of course you'd need a bit of cleanup lower right corner.) The poo on the nice green leaves is not too appealing. The background is lovely as is your bird.

[Loi Nguyen]

Beautiful shot, lovely perch and BG, sharp. Grace's crop nailed it for me, showing the nice cascading perch and the bird at the same time. Loi

[Girish Prahalad]

Thanks everybody for your feedback. Will revisit the comp based on the suggestions.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Pretty nice perch here with the greenery really adding some nice colours. Too bad there is so much whitewash on it though. Sharp and nicely exposed / processed. My first thought was to crop alternately, so the reposts address that.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Girish, I like the overall light in this, and you nailed the DOF to have everything in sharp focus. Good comp suggestions from above, and I too like the perch stretching across the frame.