Angry bird

[Jay Shah]

Pleased to share another image of Superb Starling with different pose and background. For this image, BG was better but there were some area where grey sky was visible. So I have tried to modify, for the first time, the BG by using free transform to stretch the BG. I am sure there is room for much improvement to get to perfect selection of the subject. As always,comments and suggestions will be appreciated.

Nikon D500, Nikon 600 mm F4,
1/320 s, f7.1, EV+1, ISO 640.

[John Mack]

Really neat looking bird here defiantly does not look happy. Crazy colors as well. Looks a little tight all around.

[Glenn Pure]

This is a great capture Jay. The sharpness and colour are really wonderful. I agree with John that a bit more room around the bird would be good. Also pulling the contrast back a little or lightening shadows on the head area would improve, IMHO.

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Awesome Capture and Expression on the Bird.

Thanks for sharing

[Jay Shah]

Thank you for viewing and comment.

[Jay Shah]

Thank you Glenn for your comments. I did pull back the shadows around the throat. But due to wide dynamic range, this part did not have further details to be extracted.

[Jay Shah]

Thank you, John, for your comments. I did consider providing more room, but it means adding canvas at the bottom which I like to avoid unless inevitable.

[William Dickson]

Love the colours and the pose. Facial expression is priceless. Agree that the bird needs more room to breath.

Will

[Jay Shah]

Thank you Will for your comments.