I have a secret Eared Grebe

[kevin Hice]

Shot this in Nd slough back in early June. Processed in Dpp.4 and Photoshop. Neat image,Thanks for comments and critiques.
Canon 5 D Mark 1V
500 f/4 L IS
700 mm
Av 8.0
1/1600
ISO 1600

[Aditya Sridhar]

Beautiful shot Kevin! The eye is fantastic and so are the reflections. I like the compostion too with the low POV. I'm not familiar with this species, but could the blacks be raised a little, particularly in the neck? They're fine the way they are, but I wonder if slightly more detail could be extracted without making it unnatural. Great shot nonetheless!

[Jack Backs]

Very nice image, just love the colors and composition. Sharp were it needs to be.

[John Mack]

Very nice. Like the low angle and that red eye really pops in the light. Nice how the water just melts into the background.

[Mervyn Marsh]

Very nice, I love the light and the detail on the bird, well done.

[dankearl]

I love the eye, beak and feather detail a lot... The rear end view though is not my favorite.
Image quality is top notch.

[Dorian Anderson]

The low angle and watery blur are outstanding, and the focus point is absolutely dead-on the eye/face yielding beautiful detail. However, the OOF rump is really distracting for me. Had you close down a bit to get the whole bird in focus, this would be perfection. It's still really, really nice as is. No noise anywhere!

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Simple Image. I like the eye.

Bill /eye orientation being parallel to sensor help this image.

TFS