Preening aningha

[Sid Garige]

D300, 200-400mm VR, F8, 1/640
ISO 500

[Aidan Briggs]

I think you forgot to attach the image...:)

Edit: Now I see the image. Nice light, BG, and preening pose. The neck feathers look a tad sharper on the head, you might try sharpening the head more, and the neck less.

Keep them coming.

[Michael Zajac]

Preening pose, sharpness,details and exposure all look good. Nice composition and nice BG colors.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Nice position, nice light, exppsure, detail, colors, BG and sharpness. Lovely IMO.
Congratulations!

[Harshad Barve]

lovely pose with nice details and killer BG
TFS

[Doug Brown]

Very nice preening pose with good eye contact. I agree with Aidan's assessment of the sharpening issues.

[arash_hazeghi]

Very beautiful Sid, loved the curled neck and red eye. TFS!

[denise ippolito]

Sid, I really like the composition and the pose. Nice details and lovely BG.

[Connie Mier]

Lovely birds to photograph and you captured this one beautifully. Spot on focus.

[Arthur Morris]

Looks great to me but I know that I do not have a great eye for fine detail (i.e. the sharpening issues mentioned above...) I love the shape, the form, the perfect head angle, and the killer light.

[Randy Stout]

Sid:

The first thing I think about when opening an image here is, what is the impact. This one has a lot. The shapes,colors,composition and light work very well together.

I find the sharpness OK. I see what others are commenting on, but I don't find it objectionable as posted.

Very nice.

Randy

[Sid Garige]

Thanks to you all for your time and critiques.