Australian Ringneck

[Colin Driscoll]

There is a story to this shot. Took a family road trip for a few days out to the town of Bourke at the edge of the arid lands.
On Friday evening I downloaded the day's shots from two cameras onto my laptop desktop and deleted them from the cards.
To my horror, before I could do much with them the system SSD drive controller died taking pics and work files with it.
When I returned I plugged the drive into a reader but it was unreadable.
I was recommended to Ontrack Data Recovery (www.ontrack.com) and presto I got all of the data back including this pic.

1DX II 1/320 f9 iso800 HH late afternoon light
Cropped, removed a side branch from the perch, levels, S&H, sharpen PS2019

[arash_hazeghi]

I like the light and the view of the topised but something went seriously wrong with the IQ, it looks like an iphone image for a lack of a better word, crunchy details with lots of artifacts....hope you can re process

TFS

[Arthur Morris]

Love the bird and the pose. It looks a bit funky to me as well but not as bad as it does to Arash. Was this with the bare 100-400?

IAC, f/9 did well in covering the bird though it looks to me that focus is a bit more toward the back than on the face.

My biggest problem is with the light about 3 degrees or more from your left.
with love, artie

[Colin Driscoll]

Ah, sorry, forgot the lens 600 f4 III. Not sure what has gone wrong as it wasn't much of a crop. maybe just the side light. And yes active focal point was lower back.

[gail bisson]

Great bird, lovely crop, perfect HA but it sure looks like something weird happened in PP.
Looking forward to a redo.
Gail

[John Mack]

Love the colors on this bird. The vertical framing was a nice decision.

[Colin Driscoll]

Sorry folks,that's the best I can get out of the shot. Looks like I just missed critical focus.