Quick shot

[Bob Miller]

Took this shot while in Florida quickly before the bird( do not know ID) flew off.
Nikon D-200-400
1/1600 sec at 5.6
ISO 1000
All comments welcome! Cropping?

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Bob One of my favorite birds, female grackle and a good looking girl !!!

I like the pretty bg and look back pose, Looks like she was closing the eye membrane so the eye looks funny Would take a little of the top and would like seeing more detail in the feathers, they usually stand out real well !!!

[Dave Mills]

Hi Bob, Agree with Al's comments. I would also take some off the left...

[Colin Knight]

Agree with the other comments. Too bad she didn't wait a little longer. Nice job being quick on the shutter though!

[David Thomasson]

Nice catch. To my eye (which may be jaundiced :cool:), the bright background overpowers the little lady. I envisioned this
quite differently and just went at it for practice. Hope you don't mind my messing with your image -- to say nothing of mother nature.

[Harold Davis]

dang david. that looks nice! after looking at the original i was going to say that i thought the feather detail was lost due to noise reduction. all else looks pretty good...til david went and made it look like a piece of art. nice original capture!

[Lance Peters]

Hi - Bg was a little bright on the original for my tastes - do like Davids changes.
Nice work David.
:)