Who's been eating berries?

[Chris Zink]

Taken at Eastern Neck Island NWR last week.
F/8, ISO 640, Shutterspeed 1/160, Focal length 850 (600 mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter), no flash, 2:31 pm

Comments and criticisms welcome!

[Mark Adkins]

Great pose, perch and background. To me the colors look a little over saturated. I would add some sharpening.

[Paul Lagasi]

Agree with above about sharpening..but like the colors, might brighten it up abit if was mine...TFS

[Tony Whitehead]

Lovely pose and BG, Chris. Agree on increasing the sharpening to optimise web presentation, Pity about the stick poking up between the wings. On an uncalibrated monitor with no access to PS so can't comment meaningfully on the colours. Definite evidence of berry consumption :D

[Keith Bauer]

Pretty bird with some potential. This looks over saturated and overly contrasty to me. Definitely worth looking again at the post processing on this one since the image does have nice potential.

[Ted Willcox]

Nice subject. neat image. Back off on the saturation a little and sharpen, and it will be a better image.
Ted

[RAM MALLYA]

Lovely color of the bird and setting . Wish some more focus ,sharpness on the eye or cheek of the bird