Cape Glossy Starling

[Dumay de Boulle]

These birds have no color pigment whatsoever, they have some melanin in the feathers which gives strength. The colorful effect created by way the keratin in the feathers is layered. As light falls on the feathers the keratin layers reflect different wavelengths of light resulting is this amazing iridescent coloring.

Canon 7D
Canon 400 f5.6 L
AV f6.3
TV 1/1600
ISO 800
Subject distance 6.5m
Evaluative Metering
AWB
RAW processed in CS5 iMac

[Mark Young]

Beautiful exposure, the yellow eye really contrasts against the nice glossy blues.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Superb shot amazing detail, I like the pose, the composition is I suspect optimal but I do wonder if a tad more head room and a little more space on the left would help, the bird is quite large in the frame.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Thanks folks...I was trying to show more of the detail thats the reason for the tighter crop. More space did cross my mind but decided on this as the end product. Thanks for the feedback

[arash_hazeghi]

very nice pose and details

[Dudley Watson]

Lovely detail and colours with good eye contact ...Nice chatting to u at Mankwe

[Chris Kotze]

Excellent details and super colours. Not a easy bird to expose correctly and you did well.

[Mikko Viljamaa]

Well done with relatively high ISO and a dark bird. Lovely BG too...

Mikko

[Nico Steenberg]

You nailed the exposure on a shiny customer. Super IQ and bg. Well done Dumay !

[James Salywoda]

WOW!!! I love the colors captured Dumay beautiful image.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Thanks folks for taking the time to view and comment

[Pieter de Waal]

Dumay beautiful image of this species. I agree with Chris not easy to get those colours exposed correctly, well done.