Jamaican Mango

[Ilija Dukovski]

An island endemic, taken last April. All comments appreciated.

Nikon D700 Nikkor 300mm ISO1600 f4 1/400 Hand held, full frame.

Cheers,
Ilija

[Randy Stout]

Ilija:

Often very difficult to capture a darker bird against a light background, but you pulled it off well here. Nice catchlight, sharp on the head.

The perch/wire isn't my favorite, but it is small, scaled to fit the bird, and neutral colored enough to not be obtrusive. Plus, it runs at a diagonal, always good.

My other two comments are related to the fairly steep shooting angle, and DOF challenges caused by that. Since the bulk of the body is out of the DOF, and it is a look back pose, where the body is closest to the viewer, it detracts a bit from the overall impact of the image.

Good to see you posting.

Cheers

Randy

[Ilija Dukovski]

Thank you Randy,

I didn't have too many options. It was quite dark so could not stop. Had to go with iso1600 too.
Considering the perch, it was either this or a very busy BG. This was a mountain forest in Jamaica.

Nice to be here, I had a job change, was stupidly busy, but now I'm back :)

Cheers,
Ilija

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Hi Ilija
Long time no speak mate. Hope you're well.
Randy nailed the crit pretty good, I cannot disagree.
Great to see you posting and want to see more images from you.
TFS

[Ilija Dukovski]

Thanks Akos, all well here. I'll post couple more images from Jamaica soon.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Good to see you back indeed! Great job by Randy covering things really well. Looking forward to more from you!

[Ilija Dukovski]

Good to see you back indeed! Great job by Randy covering things really well. Looking forward to more from you!

Thanks Daniel, good to be here.

[keith mitchell]

Interesting reading above comments re dof ect,head and beak are spot on! Nice work.

Keith.