Backfround looks good and the colors look natural. I am puzzled about the oof areas. The chest black and whites are sharp and have good detail but seem to soften and lose detail as my scrutiny moves toward the head. You don't mention shutter speed in your description -- could there be some motion blur due to slow shutter speed?
You have good detail. The colors are nice - from white to gray to black.
If mine, I might lighten the eye a bit to get detail I think is there. I might also crop a bit off the top - but cropping isn't my strong suit.
It looks like you were close - when I'm close I usually try to have a smaller aperture to try to get more of the bird.
I love the face.
Tough exposure on this contrasty-plumaged guy. A hot spot on the forehead and blocked blacks on the head. I'm thinking exposing for those brightest whites, fill-flash for the darker areas, and carefull PP of a RAW file would have done good. I like that we see a hint of iris in the eye (I'm a big fan of that). A degree or two better HA towards us would have been ideal. Good details, and perfect BG. I would eliminate the small pale triangle in LRC, and agree with a bit of a crop at top.
Thank you all for your comments, i'm on a steep learning curve with birds and digital. Scott mentioned the shutter speed, which i see as un-recorded on the exif, but the exposure time is listed at 0.001563. I'm not sure if this is the same thing, does it mean 1/1563 of a second. Deb said about increasing aperture, and maybe i could have gone to f11. I was fairly close to the bird.(roughly 2 metres). Don't shoot RAW,,, (lazy, and have no time).
I don't think that you have to shoot RAW (it's not being lazy). I've seen great out-of-the camera jpegs. I think one just has to plan better - which isn't a bad thing.
Deb
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