Aristocracy

[Andre Pretorius]

Image captured at Polentswa, Kalahari.

After decent rain for a couple of days, the termites were about. A sight to see Tawney Eagles, Bateleurs, and hunderds of Abdim Storks trying to catch the small prey in the dry riverbed.

Nikon D3S with 600 f4
1/800 @ f6.3
+0,3 EV
ISO 1000

C&C welcome.

Internet down at home, sending from laptop at work.

Andre

[shane shacaluga]

Nice stare straight into the camera. I like the ruffled feathers on the head with good detail. Nice OOF BG too

For some reason i end up cross eyed myself when I stare into the birds eyes :D

TFS

[Daniel Cadieux]

Good exposure, neat stare, nice background. Focus is well attained but I would apply a small round of sharpening for web presentation to get the fine detail a bit crisper. Square comp works well enough.

[Ritesh Nangare]

Great shot with great eye contact,catch light, Details great close up view of the bird........

[Grace Scalzo]

Nice frame, full of interesting details.

[Andre Pretorius]

Thank you Shane, Daniel, Ritesh and Grace.

Daniel, after resizing for Web and resharpening for web, I backed off a bit on the layer opacity for the sharpening- I was told my images was over sharpened.

Incidentally this was a LARGE crop, the IQ was retained with the D3S..

Image looks fine on MAC, does look a bit flat on laptop?

Thank you for comments!

Cheers

Andre

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Andre, great eye contact, and love the layered feather detail. Well exposed too.

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Andre - great stare, exposure and detail. It held up well to your crop.

TFS,
Rachel

[Satish Ranadive]

Spectacular portrait with majestic look. Great feather details, beautiful BG and composition.

Regards,
Satish.

[Andre Pretorius]

Thank you Stuart, Rachel and Satish for kind comments!