Redbacked Shrike

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Taken early morning, just after sunrise, from vehicle along the road from the Park entrance to the hide.

1D MKIII
300mm f/2.8 + 2x convertor
ss 1/320
f/8
ISO 800

[Ilija Dukovski]

Lovely image, perfect light, great gentle colors on the bird.
Perfect HA and inquisitive pose. I wish the shadow on the tail
was not there but it is not too destructing. Great image!
There's a dust bunny of cloning artefact on the right edge,
I'd clone it away.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

beautiful pose,eye contact and composition!

[Ramon M. Casares]

Nice comp, terrififc BG, great light, species, detail and sharpness.
Congratulations!

[Juan Aragonés]

BG, soft light, composition, eye contact and perch works very fine here. I would run a noise reduction program to the Bg because noise is visible in most part of the BG, specially under the perch, near the left edge of the frame, and in the upper right quarter.

[Stu Bowie]

Lovely warm light and colours Gerrie, and nice and sharp. I like the feather detail on the chest too. I would lighten the eye a tad, agree with Juan regarding the noise. Well captured.

[christopher galeski]

very niceGerrie,nice comp,nice colors,needs some noise reduction in BG.thanks.

[Diego Torrentes]

Hi Gerrie:

I like this pic, the bird seems confident looking forward at you. Good BG and light and sharp feathers details. I wish to see your next shot.

Bye,

[Jay Gould]

What a lovely fluffy ball of ...........fluff!

I like this image and looking forward to your next sharing.

[David Fletcher]

Lovely image. Great light quality and pose. Agree with Juan on the bg, and most definitely look forward to more Gerrie.

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Thank you for viewing & commenting everyone. I have done a round of NR on the BG.:)

[Kiran Poonacha]

Good one Gerrie, loved the Pose and BG, the NR sure works well...

[Chris Kotze]

Super pose and lovely colours and feather detail.

[Ryan Lambert]

Hey Gerrie, Nice image here in super soft light. Good pose and comp...congrats

[Dave Barnes]

Hi Gerrie. Repost does look better. Moment well seen and captured. I like the detail and colour.

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Thank you for viewing & commenting guys. It is much appreciated.