900 To Go

[Peter Hawrylyshyn]

Green Violet Ear near Savegre in Costa Rica - still one of my favorite HB photo's
The old 30D with 300mmF4 ISO200 1/500 f5.6
Perfection would have been avoiding the slight shadow across the neck

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great pose and find. I like the fanned tail and details. I would apply some S/H to get more details in the shadows and would prefer a different crop. Maybe something like this:

[Peter Hawrylyshyn]

axel -
thanks for suggestions
your recrop is close to what i did originally

in posting, assumed i'd be critiqued for too tight a crop and not enough room to side where bird is looking

just shows , a lot is subjective personal preferences

898 to go - do we get a prize/award at 1000

[Axel Hildebrandt]

898 to go - do we get a prize/award at 1000

Well, I didn't. :)

[Linda Robbins]

I like the fanned-tail pose and head position. The busy background is not ideal, especially the lower horizontal branch behind the tail. The shadow of a branch across the bird's lower neck is unfortunate, but perhaps the S/H adjustment will make it less noticable as well as opening up the shadowed areas on the belly and chin.

[Arthur Morris]

I do like the fanned tailed, but subjective personal preferences aside, this image has several serious flaws most pointed out by the lovely Ms. Robbins. In addition, the light from the left causes additional problems. "When working with primarily front lit subjects, always point your shadow at the bird," and "working in filtered light with some of the bird in direct sun and some in shadow is not a good formula for success" are two rules that can rarely be broken...

later and love, artie