Anteating Chat

[Stu Bowie]

The car is a perfect hide to capture birds that arent skittish. This guy was pretty close to my passenger window, and managed to get quite a few of him. This was taken in a small nature reserve close to my house. I liked the BG colours.

Canon 50D
100-40@ 400mm
1/1000
F/6.3
ISO 400

Exp Comp +0.33
Hand held from the car.

[denise ippolito]

Beautiful sharp details and lovely BG colors. I like the pose and both feet showing wrapped around the perch.

[James Salywoda]

Nice simple singing pose captured Stuart very nicely done that BG is sweet.:)

[Doug Brown]

Love the singing pose! Sharpness is excellent, and the BG is very nice.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

A great bg with a great singing pose...congrats!!!

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Very nice one Stuart. There seems to be a good relation between the name of the bird and the dusty beak! As you, I also like the BG and singing pose. Would have liked to see more details on the rump, may be fill flash as an option?

[Stu Bowie]

Thank you all for the kind words.

[Arno Ellmer]

Excellent capture,Stu.Also like the varying ,smooth bg,which complements the bird.Maybe increase brightness slightly to bring out more detail in darker areas ?

[Gary Esman]

Fantastic shot, sweet background, keep them coming!

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Love everything about this one Stuart. Perfect pose, bg, perch, sharpness ...

[Paul Randall]

Agree that the shadows could be pulled up a bit. Super sharp, awesome BG!! I feel like the perch is so small that the bird looks like its perched in mid air so perhaps adding a bit more of the perch below the bird might help that. Others may disagree.:o

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautiful pose Stuart Bhai, nice perch, details and BG too...

[Daniel Cadieux]

Overall very beautiful image. I agree with opening up the darker areas, and a slightly looser crop with more perch showing is certainly a viable option. Well done Stuart!

[Stu Bowie]

Thank you all for the great feedback and comments. Always appreciated.