Spoonbill

[Chris Kotze]

Canon 40D 100 -400 L
1/1000 sec f7.1 ISO 400

[Mitchell Krog]

Great pose Chris, good clarity, colours spot on and nice and sharp.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Wicked pose and comp! I wouldn't mind seeing it a touch darker (~ 1/3 stop) and I would look at selectively sharpening the face/eye. Was this cropped form horizontal? Any any case this is a high-impact image, I like it alot :-)

[Kim Rollins]

Chris -

I like it! Good capture here IMO.

Great pose. Good colors and the exposure looks good to me and I would not decrease it. You are pushed against the right side here but not spiking up the top. I do see some distraction in BG (possibly from pp tool such as brush) that is a kind of ghosting and can be seen around head and neck but other places too. I would think reduction of exposure would accentuate that.

[Kobus Tollig]

Great pose comp and detail. Like this well done. Maybe add some contrast. What you think?

[Kim Rollins]

The improvements made a positive difference.

Good Go!

[Stu Bowie]

Super posture to form an umbrella with the wings. Well exposed, with good detail in the wings, and your comp works well Chris.

[Chris Kotze]

Thanks for the comments and advice. Kim thanks for pointing out the ghosting in the BG. A bit of slobby PP work from my side and I only picked it up afterwords:D. I meant to repost it in quik reply but it did not want to copy so a did a repost.

[Juan Aragonés]

I agree with Daniel about exposure. The bird´s pose is really interesting and I like it a lot. It seems to me that this image has an excess in sharpening. Good job

[Dave Barnes]

Super capture Chris, I love the pose and comp.
The colours look great.

[Chris Kotze]

Thanks for all the views and comments