Burchell's Starling

[Bill Dix]

Got a nice pose from this fellow.

D500, Sigma 150-600C @ 460mm; ISO 2000; 1/2500s @ f/6.3 manual. HH.

[Juan Tolentino]

Nice detail, pose and background. Love the "electric" blue color. Thank you for sharing Bill.

[Jonathan Ashton]

A fine looking bird Bill, I wonder if it would benefit from a little less contrast, the image appears just a little heavy to me.

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Bill a lovely side profile of this exquisite bird and great backdrop, as you have no distracting elements and a natural perch. Nicely framed too.

For me the image just looks a bit dark/flat, oppose to perhaps Jon's thinking of a tad to much contrast and so your start loose that fantastic iridescent colouring this bird has. Opening up the Exp a tad, the shadows (not ideal, but) it then helps start to bring a lot more depth of colour out, which means you can then you can then address the colour more, if required.

TFS
Steve

[John Whaley]

I like the edit here but wow what a beautiful bird. Great perch, background and pose. tfs

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Good one, Bill. It indeed is a nice pose from this iridescent beauty. It was quite overcast at that point in the day, and would agree with bringing out more detail in shaded areas.

Geoffrey




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[Isaac Grant]

Hi Bill. Sweet bird, pose and background. I think both versions of this are off and have that hazy look to them. To me both are still too dark and a bit too flat.

[Dorian Anderson]

This is a very nice shot. I do agree there is more room to make the original color pop, but otherwise there's not much to nit pick here.

[Tim Foltz]

Beautiful bird, insane shades of blue, I like the repost better but I would tinker with it a bit more.

-Tim