Portrait of A Killer

[Phil Liew]

Here's one of an Orange Breasted Trogon (Female) with breakfast. Taken over the weekend in Bukit Tinggi.

5D Mark II + EF 600mm + 1.4 II Ext 1/50s f/8.0 ISO 800 EV +1/3 Fill Flash -2 Extension tube 36mm

[Randy Stout]

Phil:

Striking bird, love the eye ring. The bug looks a bit noisy on my monitor.
I am uncertain about the way the background color changes behind the bird. It might have been nice if you could have moved just slightly to the left to shoot against the all blue background. The brightness on the left tends to draw the eye. I saw from your technicals, that you had quite a rig going on here, so perhaps that wasn't possible.

Cheers

Randy

[Daniel Cadieux]

Considering the conditions the sharpness turned out quite good. I don't mind the transition in BG but I do agree the brightest part just above the wing/shoulder tends to draw my eye. You could crop some canvas at left to place the bird closer to the corner, simply for additional compositional balance. What a snack by the Trogon!! Was this for himself or for some hungry nestlings??

[Lance Peters]

Striking Bird - love the action - agree with the techs above - keep them coming :)