Purple rumped sunbird

[prasanna av]

Shot with Nikon D4, Nikkor 500 mm with 1.4 Tc.
Overcast conditions
ISo 1600, f 5.6, 1/1600.
Natural BG.
Cropping done for composition.
Shadow recovery and local sharpening done.
NR applied to the Background.
All critiques are welcome.
Regards, Prasanna

[MohsenVahedipour]

Lovely colorful bird. I like the pose & soft BG. TFS

[Daniel Cadieux]

I too like the pose, and you have some very beautiful colours. Exposure and sharpness look good, but I see a pale halo around the face and a dark one around most of the rest of the body, surely some processing artifact that you could clean-up.

[arash_hazeghi]

nice pose, there is big halo around the bird

[hennieloots]

Hi Prasanna - Gorgeous colors and clean BG. Nice feather detail visible. I agree on the comments regarding the halo around the bird.
TFS
Hennie

[prasanna av]

this is an unprocessed image where only cropping is done.
I still can't understand from where the halo came from.
Can anybody help???
Is it because of the shadow recovery??
Prasanna