Eastern Kingbird

[Raymond Barlow]

D300 - 200-400 VR
1/500s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso250
hand held through truck window, natural light slight crop.

A very common species around here, but difficult to appraoch.

thanks for looking!

[Randy Stout]

Ray:

I love the colors in this one, very relaxed feeling. Good pose, HA, sharpness & exposure. Nice framing by the leaves. I might be tempted to trim back the last little bit of leaf almost touching the head from above.

From a composition standpoint, I like it as is, but might trim in to about the 1st r in your sig line from the right.
THe only other point is that as muted as it is, I find the light spot in the green area to the right of the bird just a bit attention grabbing, and might tone that down a bit more.

Thanks for sharing. Very peaceful.

Randy

[Erich Stevens]

Raymond,

Love the even lighting and soft green BG. The image has a very serene feeling to it. Some will say clone out the last 3rd of the twig perch, but it is what it is. Have you tried a vertical crop? Great work!

[Kiran Poonacha]

Neat one you got here Raymond, beautiful looking bird, perch, pose and setting. Just would could out thr leaf above the head and clone out the white patches..

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the soft light, head angle and sharpness and agree with Randy regarding a slight crop off the right and removing the bright spots in the BG.

[colincarter]

Excellent shot Ray, great composition. I think i would get rid of the bright spots in the background aswell.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Good pose, and love the setting. The grouping of leaves at the bottom looks great, and I like the framing created by the top leaves - but I do agree the one leaf reaching out towards the head should go. Eliminating the bright spots would really polish up the BG nicely. I know it is likely caused by all the yellowish/green vegetation surrounding it, but I'm finding a slight colour cast on your subject.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Nice comp, I like the leaves, pose, light, BG and colors, I would've removed the white line and the three white dots in the BG though.
Congratulations.

[Stu Bowie]

Good pose, and I like the exposure and sharpness. I agree by taking off the right will improve the comp.

[Fabs Forns]

I like how the leaves frame the bird and the pretty BG. Agree on removing the light spots.

[Raymond Barlow]

Thanks for all the excellent feedback., very cool.

Attached a quick update... I guess the semi pano is my style for many images, but I might try a vertical some time., great ideas !!

[colincarter]

thats superb now Ray, don't change anything else

[Juan Aragonés]

Hey Ray, I love the OP but just with a touch of contrast adjustment because the image looks a bit flat in my monitor. I ABSOLUTELY love the simple composition. Well done.

[Gal Shon]

The repost is beautiful, I like the comp.