Narina Trogan (another view)

[Richard Flack]

Followed Gail's advice from my last post and have gone with a vertical crop. Prefer how this has come out. Let me know what you think?

Location: Dlinza Forest, Eshowe, KwaZulu Natal
Date taken: 20 March 2014
Photo details:
Canon EOS 7D
400mm f2.8
ISO 800
Shutter speed 1/250
F stop 5.6
Exposure bias -0.3

Lens blur to BG, brightening and contrast, sharpening for web, medium crop.

[gail bisson]

This is so much better Richard. But what do you think?
I am a hard taskmaster so the last thing I would suggest is to tidy up the extra catchlight in the eye and tone down the RLC and you have yourself a fine image of a wonderful species.
Gail

[keith mitchell]

Richard I like this, this is being a bit picky but I might just do a bit more work on the Bg,I like the bird just as it is ,looks great.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the pose, perch, sharpness and composition. Very well done Richard.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Lovely birds, never even seen one, Richard!
Details look good, I would tone down overall brightest tones through an overlayed luminosity mask though?

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

The repost looks much better. I like the new crop and details, well done.

[Jonathan Ashton]

I like the bird, a little eye clean up and it would be even better. I would suggest homogenising the background slightly to make it less contrasting.

[Richard Flack]

Thanks so much for the comments everyone! I will look to apply some of the changes.
Gail, I like it a lot, thanks for the advice.

[Satish Ranadive]

Spectacular image of beautiful and colourful bird. Rest is mentioned above.

Regards,
Satish.

[Karl Egressy]

Great looking bird, excellent details especially in the green head ant throat.