Punk Jay

[John Robinson]

Jay in pool
jay head shot .
Came across this whilst doing a sort
Taken at the pool a while back
Not much surround so I've gone for an "eye in the middle " crop.
D200
Sigma 100-300mm
Metz 402 two heads set well back as fill in.
Crop from horizontal
One round sharpen after resize/neat image.
Thanks for comments on last pic.
Cheers
JohnR

[Karl Egressy]

Cool image, excellent pose and details.

[Randy Stout]

John;

The tight crop adds to the impact here, eye on centerline can work well. Very sharp.

The whites under the bill look a bit lacking in detail, even though they are in the 230s range. Did you need to pull back the exposure a bit?

BG color works well here.

Cheers

Randy

[Grace Scalzo]

Cute and I like your title. Wondering the same thing as Randy mentioned.

[John Robinson]

Hi Thanks.
The original was pretty much the same although the white area was not reading as similar on the three levels. I tried to get a bit back in Bibble and Image Guru but theres nothing there, so I left it.
Cheers
John

[Tobie Schalkwyk]

First time I see a macro shot of a bird John!

I love the detail - you don't get it any clearer than this! Great shot!

[John Robinson]

Thanks again
Heres another from the sequence with a bit more detail. I wasn't keen on the bit of bracken in the top.
Cheers
John

[Joseph Przybyla]

Excellent feather detail, nice color palette. I agree with you regarding the bracken in the repost but the feather details on the neck are better in the repost. Thank you for sharing.

[Satish Ranadive]

Spectacular portrait.

Regards,
Satish.