Bar-shouldered Dove

[Paul Burdett]

My first half decent photo of a Bar-shouldered Dove, taken yesterday...only the second time I've ever seen one. I chose a 10x8 crop due to distractions on the LHS that I didn't want to fix in Photoshop, although I did use some content aware fill in places, selective NR and sharpening. Thanks for looking. Feedback appreciated as always and learned from.
7Dii, 100-400@400mm, 1/250th sec, f6.3, iso800, AV mode HH.

[Colin Driscoll]

Lovely pose and light Paul. I suspect there is a slight magenta cast because the wing color is normally plain brown.

[gail bisson]

Really cool BG.
I think a bit of fill flash would have been your friend here.
I cannot comment re: color cast on bird as I have never seen this bird.
Nice to see the feet and have the bird so nicely parallel to the sensor.
Gail

[John Mack]

What a neat looking dove. Like the pose and the perch. The background looks pretty neat.

[William Dickson]

What a lovely looking bird and well captured....I seem to see some sort of colour cast as well, but that may well be the filtered light. Nice one.

Will

[Paul Burdett]

Thank you all for the feedback. I might go back to the raw file and check the colour cast. Cheers.

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks for this excellent photo of a life-bird for me. I love those red feet and that the tail is on our side of the branch :)

with love, a

[Paul Burdett]

YAW (as you would say)...There is a magenta colour cast, but the raw file shows the same...maybe the filtered light as alluded to by William. I did remove it in Photoshop and learned yet another way to do it in the process. Cheers.