Purple Sunbird: Eclipse Male.

[Satish Ranadive]

From Archive, Image was created in 2011.Cropped from horizontal to vertical for composition and sharpened. NR applied selectively to BG.

ISO: 800, 1/500 @ F: 8.0. Exposure bias: +0.3.
WB: Auto. HH. Canon: 550D, 400mm.

Thanks for viewing and appreciation. C & C are highly appreciated.
Kind Regards.

[Doug Brown]

Pose and sharpness are first rate, as is the perch. It appears that you have applied some BG blurring, and it is causing some soft edges on both the bird and the perch. I'm not crazy about the orange flower coming out of the bird's head, and I might consider darkening the BG just a bit.

[Melissa Groo]

Awesome setting and pose. Is that the tip of its tongue sticking out? Such a riot of color. I agree with Doug about the flower behind head, perhaps you can clone it out if you are ok with that. But a lovely portrait.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Lovely bird, nice perch, and such an explosion of colours in the BG without being too overbearing (except for that one flower mentioned by the others). A bit better masking needed in some spots for the blurring, but all-in-all quite appealing.

[Karl Egressy]

Great looking bird, excellent sharpness and details, Satish. I also like the setting with the OOF flowers in the background.

[David Salem]

Nice pose, feather detail, perch and BG on this one Satish. Well captured. Another great looking species from India!

[Girish Prahalad]

lovely comp, pose & details.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the pose, perch, sharpness and setting. Good suggestions above. Nice image Satish.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you all for the feed back, suggestions and nice comments.

Regards,
Satish.