In the spotlight Male Stonechat

[christopher galeski]

Shot taken the other day,a beautiful morning for a change here in the UK,cannon500mm IS,L,F4,5D MK111,1/4EXT,700MM FL,tripod,crop,sharpened,touch SH,iso800,F5.6,1/3200S.

[keith mitchell]

Smashing bit of sunlight you have captured here Chris, nice relaxed bird with lots of detail all on a nice bg,very well done with this.

Keith.

[Glennie Passier]

Very nice Chris. Love the colours in the bird and BG and grasses. The grasses seem to anchor it all together.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Good shot Chris, I like the pose and the setting. I appreciate very directional light but I would suggest at the raw stage decreasing contrast by 1 if you use DPP I would also lower the highlights a tad and lift the shadows, if you already did that I would lift the shadows a little more in Photoshop and decrease the brightest highlights a little.

[Randy Stout]

Chris:

I like the colors, composition, pose,bg.

The details on the breast look a bit coarse to me, perhaps a bit more sharpening. I do agree with Jon about lightening the shadows a bit, as some of the blacks under the bill are blocked.

Cheers

Randy

[William Dickson]

Lovely lighting Chris. Great looking pose and BG colour. Agree about whats been said already about the blacks.

Will

[christopher galeski]

Thanks for looking and comments.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image in pleasant lights. Very nice pose. Beautiful diagonal perch and environment.
Superb details and great composition.

Regards,
Satish.