Cockatiel - Captured

[Jay Gould]

140305 - Tenerife, Canary Islands
Loro Parque Rainforest
Olympus EM-1; Panasonic 35-100@47; 1/400@f/2.8; ISO 1000

[Randy Stout]

Jay:

Nice to see you posting. Nice pose, lovely bird, remarkable bg.

I might crop it more it more as a vertical, coming in from the right side, and consider toning down the luminosity of the perch a bit.

Cheers

Randy

[Jay Gould]

Thanks Randy!

[Karl Egressy]

Nice looking bird, excellent pose. Toning down the perch would help.

[Raymond Lee]

Great capture! Really nice pose! I also agree to tone down the perch a bit. There's a bit of noise or artifacts in the background.

[Andy Shepherd]

He's a cheeky little chap!, Jay...and with a superb crest too. Agree re a vertical crop and toning down the perch.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I used to have one of these as a pet, not any longer though as I prefer them outside :-) Nice exposure, details, love the raised crest. Good suggestions you got. There are also a few repeating patterns in the BG that you can tweak a bit more.

[arash_hazeghi]

I like the pose and BG, IQ is not great however, the feathers look over-sharpened and noisy with very little detail especially in the blacks. overall saturation and contrast are lacking too. more room to the left would be better

TFS

[Jay Gould]

Thank you everyone for all of your comments and critiques; truly appreciated! Here is my "attempt" to apply all of the suggestions including Daniel's Rorschach Test.