Little Grebe - UK

[Tony Whitehead]

One of the few bird images from our UK trip earlier in the year. Made at a friend's trout fishery near Cambridge.
Nikon D300
Nikon 70-300 VR @300mm
ISO 400 1/200s f8
LR2 PS4 with some local contrast and colour adjustments with Nik Viveza. Some bright spots cloned from the water.

[Clement Francis]

Very sweet, the clarity is good, the mild light and compo as well.

[Kiran Poonacha]

loved the comp and angle tony, nice light too.. the FG and BG looks great... congrats..

[Harshad Barve]

what a sweet image this is , lovely compo , IQ and FG/BG
TFS

[Mital Patel]

too good tony. the wet feathers on back body looks lovely. a cut grebe with perfect captured.

[Stu Bowie]

Great close up Tony, and I like the overall feather detail, especially with the droplets on the back. I would maybe take a little off the bottom.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice low angle, and the green water provides a nice backdrop for the bird's warmer tones. I like the water droplets on the back. I only wish for a slightly better HA (relative to body angle).

[paul leverington]

Tony--is this an adult? Breeding? Wow-quite striking with those colors and markings. It might be a tad too saturated, and if possible you might want to get a bit lower next time. I think if I had one of these arou8nd I'd be missing a lot of work! Nice one.

Paul

[denise ippolito]

Tony, Really nice close up. I love the feathers w/ the water on them-so much detail there. I like the green water also.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Very nice environment. I like the light a lot and wish for a better head angle.

[Arthur Morris]

I too love the colors and that sweet, sweet bird. EXP perfect. With something this nice I would take the time to clean the foreground water. The BKGR water is loverly. I would take a bit off the bottom as presented but including the whole reflection at the time of capture would have been an option. You need to take at least a sliver off the bottom so that we cannot see the tiny bit of green where the back of the head ends and the back of the bird starts....

As for the head, it just needed to be on a bit straighter as Dan mentioned.

[Rohan Kamath]

superb exposure on this very cute birdie...fantastic details...the water on the back adds nicely...

-Cheers,
Rohan
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