Sulphur-crested Cockatoo in Daintree Rainforest canopy

[Tony Whitehead]

Image made earlier this year in Queensland, Australia. Photographed from a tower up through the rainforest canopy at the Daintree Discovery Centre. I was fortunate to be there at a time that a couple of Cockatoos were flying relatively close before moving off to another area of the forest.
Nikon D300
Nikon 70-200 @ 200mm
ISO 800 1/2500 f4
Matrix +0
Comments and advice appreciated.

[Juan Aragonés]

Tony this one is fantastic. The pose of the bird can´t be better and the eye contact is very neat and nice. The composition is perfect and you did a very good exposure job here. I think that this image can be improved warming the color just a bit and increasing the saturation on the beautifull yello crest and wing/tail feathers. I also like the BG with lots of details about the habitat.

[Rene' Villela]

Incredible shot Tony! Thanks!

[Stu Bowie]

What a great contrast in colours here Tony. The cockatoo really stands out against the dark green BG, and even better with the outspread wings. I also like the light showing through the wings. Very well captured.

[Doug Brown]

Beautiful bird, perfect position, and I love the way the white bird stands out against the dark green of the jungle! Congrats on a fine image!

[Arthur Morris]

Fantastic. Advice: make more images like this.

For the repost I followed Juan's suggestion, did a 40% Linear Burn on the back of the neck and face, and cropped a bit from behind and below.

[Arthur Morris]

ps; After looking at the image I think that it held up pretty well.

[bill kominsky]

I'm really sorry here Juan that i have to agree with all of the above LOL :)- the image is absolutely stunning, congrats on something super.

Bill

[Harold Davis]

awesome tony!!! love the pose!! that had to be a fantastic site!!

[Tony Whitehead]

Thanks for the input everyone. Artie, your repost with Juan's suggestions is a definite improvement on my effort. I had used the linear burn on the whites but hadn't thought to locally do more on the neck and face so I have learned something more which is the aim:D

[Arthur Morris]

You are most welcome Tony. It is the least that I could do as a thank you for all of your great critiques.

[Dan Brown]

The bird looks great in original and even better in the repost. That linear burn is a good technique. I love being able to count the primary feathers! I thought that the only thing that would improve this image was to reduce a bit of BG noise, so in my repost of Artie's repost, I protected the bird and reduced noise in the BG with Noise Ninja (no sharpening but heavy on the NR):).

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks for the repost Dan. My less than discerning eye does not see any differences in BKGR noise.