Northern Wheatear

[Rosl Roessner]

Hi,
this is one of the portraits I made from the male Northern Wheatear, a quite uncommon bird at our part of Germany.

Mark III, Canon 500 + 2x TC, (UUH, I love that big lens!!!!:))
1/640 sec/ f 9 / ISO 500

Al Comments very welcome!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the eye contact, BG and you handled the harsh light well. I would sharpen the bird less.

[Rosl Roessner]

Hi Axel,
this is funny, because I always get the comment "you could sharpen the bird a bit more" in the BPN Forum, I did an extra sharpening with this image before uploading it.... So, I am happy, that there was no need to do that :)

[Alexander Koenders]

Hi loveley lady

I like the birs as presented do i wished fore less light. Perhaps that wil olso resolve the sharpnesproblem?

I hope that the shorteared owls will breed this time on that spot so we can pay them a visit after our lesbostour. I will be in Lesbos from the 1 untill the 8 of may do we'lle leave urley on the 8the. I geuss we have to make a appointment on the 7 of may somewhere on the island:)

I hope we'lle see eacother over there.

Greetings and kisses

alexander

[Peter Hawrylyshyn]

Lovely bird with a nice HA against a perfect soft BG. Very nicely done under the harsh lighting.

Agree with Axel about the sharpening - looks overdone on my monitor.

Did you consider straightening the post?

[Fabs Forns]

Very nice pose and BG, wit gradated blues and greens. Bird looks crispy as mentioned and Peter's idea of straightening sounds good. Keep them coming!

[Stu Bowie]

Lovely pose, and exposure looks good. A sign of oversharpening is on the top of the wing, between the black and grey, those silver parts on the feathers ( crunchy bits ).

[Ramon M. Casares]

Agree that it loks a bit oversharpened, but I like it, it has nice light, pose and BG. Congratulatinos!

[Rosl Roessner]

Thank you for all your comments.
I don't feel too happy with the straightened perch, because I think the bird gets out of balance and the trees in the BG too.
But I understand the idea. :)
Thanks for working with my image!