Cape Robin

[John Deakin]

Taken on the Garden Route, South Africa, using:-

D3
500 VR
F5.6
1/500
ISO 800
Matrix metering

Your comments are very welcome, john

[Doug Brown]

Love the composition, pose, and sharpness John! I doubt that more DOF would have gotten the tail feathers in focus, so you made a good choice shooting f/5.6 for the BG, which looks good. Thanks for posting!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great details, light and beautiful bird. I would give it a bit more room. Thanks for sharing!

[Daniel Stenberg]

Perfect sharpness, COMP and DOF. Beautiful bird.

// Daniel

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Very nice bird and great details. I agree with Doug about the DOF.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I usually don't like 'em so tight in the frame, but this one works! It has the feel of the bird's curiosty having it approach quite close for further inspection of that big round glass pointed towards it :-) Terrific pose!!

I would only tone down the three brighter spots above the perch in LLC.

[David Steele]

A lovely image John. Reminds me of my garden in Cape Town. I don't think it is too tight as some have suggested but I would darken the log a bit.

[Simon Bennett]

I like the alert pose and critical sharpness around the face.

[Sudhir Shivaram]

Nice image of this beautiful looking bird. I am ok with the out of focus tail. Such a pleasing image.

[Arthur Morris]

Perfect head angle and tail cock. Incredibly sharp. And thankfully, nobody requested that the tail be in focus.

[Tony Whitehead]

Lovely shot of this species, John. Pose is typical - captures the feel of the bird really well. Technical details all perfect.

[John Deakin]

Thanks so much to you all for your encouraging comments, they are really appreciated. Sorry for late response, been away, great to come back to these comments though :)

John