Green Bee Eater- Sunbath

[Harshad Barve]

Dear All
Taken near city dam with D300/ 50-500APO SIGMA/ F6.3 / ISO 200
This GBE was sunbasking

All C & C welcome & appreciated

Harshad

[Fabs Forns]

Beautiful bird and neat composition and colors. I may sharpen the head some more.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Good angle, eye contact and BG. Aside from sharpening, I would adjust the midtones in Levels to about 0.90.

[Harshad Barve]

Fabs & Axel
Thanks for suggations
here is repost
let me know how it looks now

Harshad

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Looks definitely better. Make sure to select the inside of the beak only to avoid a sharpening halo around it.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Great light, species, BG, pose, colors, detail and comp, I like the OP better, the second one in my monitor looks a bit oversharpened.
Congratulations!

[James Shadle]

Harshad,
I might split the difference in sharpness between the to two posts.:)
The subject, sharpness, exposure and background make this a winner.
I also like the composition, but wonder how it would look with the Bee-Eater a little more left in the frame.
Congrats on a beautiful image.
James

[Ilija Dukovski]

Very nice, great colors and pose,
nice BG and perch too,
agree with James about possible different crop.
Congrats!

[Kobus Tollig]

Well done on what you doing here and some good advice given. Well done

[Stu Bowie]

Harshad, perfect pose, and I like the colours in this. Your repost with the adjusted midtones works well, although you may have oversharpened him a bit.

[Jan Wegener]

really great capture with an awesome BG. However, I feel that the sahrpening on the repost is definitely too much in the facial area. Contrast wise it's much nicer.

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

My vote is somewhere in between two sharpening. The repost has visible a bit too much sharpening what created a strong halo around the lower bill. How much the image was saturated? Colors are gorgeous. Smooth bg is a bonus. Well done.

Szimi