Long-tailed widowbird

[Stephen Earle]

40D, Iso320, f6.3, 1/1250

[Kobus Tollig]

Great pose and bg. Maybe add some contrast. Pity he is not facing more this way

[Arthur Morris]

No pity from me; this is pretty spectacular. Love the wing and tail positions and the great head angle (for this pose). Also love the BKGR. I would not increase the contrast at all.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the look-back pose and BG. Is this a heavy crop? If not, I would sharpen the head a bit more.

[Stu Bowie]

Well exposed blacks Stephen, and good to see the wingspread. I presume the BG is OOF grass. Nicely done.

[Ramon M. Casares]

This is just stunning! The pose, light, exppsure, detail, colors, light, BG, and HA, all is in perfect harmony!
Congratulations!

[Fabs Forns]

Impressive bird! I love the warm light and clean BG. Agree on sharpening head more, contrsat is fine with me.

[Chris Kotze]

Excellent capture. Super colours, exposure and a great OOF BG

[Morkel Erasmus]

stunning Stephen! cannot do much but echo what has been said. and hey, if Arthur doesn't want to change anything I won't pick nits hehe ;)
love the pose, exposure, head angle and the way the bird fills the frame.

[Lorant Voros]

Wow...what a bird. Great light, fantastic pose, colors, detail. You can be proud of this one. Congratulations.

[Kiran Poonacha]

You have done very well to get this long bird in a frame, Lovely Image, nice BG too..

[Stephen Earle]

Thanks everyone for your comments.

[Juan Aragonés]

Oh man, I love widowbirds and this image is a very example of their beauty. The critical focus point seems to be in the right wing instead of the head so I agree with Axel about another round of USM :-)