Almost full frame. Captured near home along y favorite stretch of the local river. This is a really cool fellow, belonging to a young couple, who walk him daily and he can free fly and mix with other birds, yet comes back to his "flock" of humans. A sweetie, but the bite is a killer, especially on the ears! LOL!
30D, 300mm f/4L IS USM, 1.4x, ISO800, f/5.6, 1/200, 430EX at zero, beamer,
the point get me to in to discussion is the beak reflection which is big. Also the BG is superb and if that can be sort out with nice blur or NR without noise it adds a bit more contrast to the image.
eye is just superb.
wish the beak was bit upper side showing under part also.
Interesting composition. I wish I could see the entire beak ,since that is such a distinctive part of these guys. It does give him a bit of a coy look however as posted.
I might consider a slight midtone adjustment to darken them slightly.
A bit more DOF to sharpen up the feathers on the back might have worked well also.
I like the backstory!
Randy
PS:Mital and I were typing at the same time, sorry to repeat.
agree on darkening and some more DOF would have helped. great close-up, you really feel he's about to whisper something in your ear (or bite it off ;))
Superb image Akos, love the composition, BG and terrific details in the eye. Just fantastic. I agree about toning down the bill just a bit and the feathers in the foreground too. I agree about DOF but, man, you can be very happy with this one!
Lightness issue has been addressed, but what an otherwise excellent image. I like that we can see a tiny bit of the BG peeking between the bill and neck. Cool story too, thanks for including that info :-)
Beautiful portrait, with lots to like. Great BG, excellent compo and exp. I may, as mentioned, darken the bill but I like your choice of DOF, emphasizing the eye. The contrast between the plumes and colors of BG is awesome.
Very nice bird. Love the way it turned its head towards the camera.
I only wish for more DOF so we could see the whole bird in focus and may be tone down the lighter parts of the feathers on the shoulder. The BG needs some NR and removal of dust bunnies. jc
Thank you kind folks for all the constructive feedback. I will rework this image. Plus when I did the PP on this, that was quite a few months back and I have learned some very nice steps from nowhere else but BPN!!!
Black Cockatoo portrait
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