Singing wagtail

[Milan V]

Yellow wagtail Motacilla flava


Canon 40D, Canon 500 mm + 1.4.TC, ISO 200, 1/1000, f8, +0.3
PP: tiny crop from left, levels, saturation, contrast and sharpness



Best!
Milan

[Doug Brown]

Nice singing pose. Perch and BG are nice. I would desat the yellow channel and run a little Shadows/ Highlights work on the bird. Here's a repost.

[Doug Brown]

Not sure why the BG color changed on my repost. I did selective adjustments on the bird.

[stuart wanuck]

like the image good suggestion with lightening birds face good image

[DarrenMcKenna]

Nice image Milan, I like the perch and BG, nice detail. Could work also as a vertical. Like you original post better then the re post.







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[Ákos Lumnitzer]

HI Milan
It appears a little soft as if it were a big crop, yet it isn't. Perhaps the fact that it is not even 70kb as an image explains it? It can e 200kb max and 1024 x 800 as well. I like the singing pose, it's super! :)

[Ilija Dukovski]

Nice to see bird from Slovenia, agree with above, I'd also crop from left a bit
to move it from the center some more. Great singing pose, love the perch.

[Stu Bowie]

I like the singing pose, together with the open beak. I agree this looks a tad soft, but what a great BG.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Doug's repost looks better although both versions could go IMO a bit warmer, also fill lfash would have hrelped here IMO. Nice perch, singing pose, detail, colors and BG.
Congratulations!

[Milan V]

Thank you all for comments.
Doug, thanks for your version, agree for shadows, but these males during breeding could be even really dull yellow even more then on my photo :-) Akos, Stuart, the original is tack sharp, should be compression on this smaller version.