Just A Colorful Grackle

[Dave Phillips]

Photographed just over a year ago on 5/11/08 @ 72 am,
400mm w/1.4X, ISO 800, 1/125, f/9, +.33EV
The morning light was coming in from the left lighting his back nicely.
Looking down, the bg is all oof duckweed. A few light spots cleaned up on bird......patched, no cloning

Thanks for looking in, opportunity to share and continued c/c

[Maxis Gamez]

Hi Dave,

This is excellent. Great composition, details, DOF and great BG. The eye really stands out!!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great details, BG and fanned tail but the iridescence puts it over the top for me. A bit more eye contact would have made it even better.

[Fabs Forns]

Lovely colors and the iridescence showing make this a very nice image. It oculd use a bit more room around if you have it. Neat BG!

[Dave Mills]

Hey Dave...Great job with good lighting, backround, placement and sharpness. I also feel it could use a bit more room on the bottom and left. Nice image!!

[Steve Canuel]

Nicely exposed. I like the pose, the detail in the back feathers, and the color of the BG.

[Stu Bowie]

Super pose, and you have exposed this perfectly. Sharp with excellent detail, and love the iridescence.

[denise ippolito]

Dave, Beautiful exposure and details-I like the fanned tail. The duckweed makes a lovely BG!

[Randy Stout]

Dave:

It has all been touched on. Extremely nice image, the level of details in the blacks is great.

Can't do much better on a grackle than this!

Randy

[Chris Kotze]

Beautiful bird,colours and super exposure and great detail

[Steve Maxson]

I would agree with Randy - it's all been covered above. Excellent image, Dave.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Very, very nice grackle image Dave. Perfect display of their "true" colours, and awesome pose. I agree with Fabs for a touch more room around, but no biggie. With the head nicely angled towards us I'm confused by the "more eye contact" comment by Axel - perhaps I have a different definiton of what that term means?