Purple Swamphen.

[Marc Mol]

Moore Reserve, Sydney- Australia.
D300 200-400VR ISO200 f/4.8 1/180s@400mm. 15% crop.

C & C most welcome

Cheers
Marc

[Wayne Wood]

very nice Marc, a little cw rotation would help here

[Maxis Gamez]

Oh this is great but needs rotation. The colors makes this image for me.

[joel quenneville]

Wow! I really like this one. Your colors are great and so are your lighting and pose. I would like to see a little more headroom if you have it. I would also add a gradient at the bottom to darken the reflection some.

[Marc Mol]

very nice Marc, a little cw rotation would help here

Thanks Wayne, corrected now.

[Ken Watkins]

Coincidence is a strange thing, only yesterday I was reading an article on birding trips in the South African version of "Country Life", and it featured a picture of this species.
This is a great shot, what an amazing colour!

[Stephen Earle]

Beautiful shot. I like the comp a lot.

[Rene' Villela]

Lovely bird Marc! I love the colors and the exposure is perfect! Cheers!

[Daniel Cadieux]

Looks better with a corrected rotation. Now it only needs more room, and some work on the eye...especially darkening the pupil and reducing the blue cast on the entire eye (this would make the eye pop, and the red iris look better).

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Yes, repost in relation of the rotation is better but the image lost its sharpness.
Nice image though.

Szimi

[Arthur Morris]

Good stuff above by Daniel. This is a good example of an image with a weak reflection; in such cases, I would much rather add a teleconverter and create a vertical of the whole bird with only a small section of the reflection.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Its pose is nice and typical. I think the repost of it is oversaturated. Not by much but enough to notice. I do support Artie's suggestion on tighter framing.

[Marc Mol]

Good stuff above by Daniel. This is a good example of an image with a weak reflection; in such cases, I would much rather add a teleconverter and create a vertical of the whole bird with only a small section of the reflection.

You mean something more like this Arthur?

[Arthur Morris]

Now your talking. The tighter VERT is much more powerful than the weak, muddy REFL. It has a lot more pop too. It is, however, a bit too big in the frame.