Purple Martin

[Ilija Dukovski]

At first I discarded this one (good thing did not delete:)) because the
bird was too small in the frame. After the comments about my previous
P. Martin post I decided to revisit and I actually managed to get
decent IQ from a huge crop.

CC appreciated.

Nikon D700 300mm+TC14 f/5.6 1/640 AP as metered ISO 400

[Arthur Morris]

This one works much better for me. Like the light and the pose and IQ looks good at least.

[Julie Brown]

Good color and lighting. I like the gradient background too.

BTW, a bunch of these guys put on an aerial show for me one evening a couple of weeks ago as I cut the grass on my lawn tractor. The grass was on the high side (with lots of weeds and clover) and as the mower kicked up the bugs, the birds swooped in and picked them off! It was fun to watch.:D

[wendell westfall]

Nice work, Ilija. I like the way the bird stands out from the beautiful blue/green background.

[Harshad Barve]

Beautiful pose , nice HA & IQ , BG is good , overall one fine image
TFS

[Ilija Dukovski]

This one works much better for me. Like the light and the pose and IQ looks good at least.

Thanks, good thing I didn't delete it :)

[Ilija Dukovski]

Thank you everyone for the comments, appreciated.

[arash_hazeghi]

looks very good Ilija, shouldn't have any problem producing high IQ cropped images with D700, just need to have tack sharp focus!

[John Ippolito]

Nice detail and the exposure looks very good for the blue/black back. Pose and BG very nice.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Great IQ indeed Ilija! Love the graduation in the BG following the bird's position. Excellent stuff mate! :)

[Morkel Erasmus]

nice pose, detail and exposure...good show of the iridescence...

[Ilija Dukovski]

Thank you all for the comments, appreciated.