Greater Collard Sunbird

[Jan Fourie]

Taken at Knysna ,South africa
lens :canon 300mm f2.8
Camera :canon 1 D mark 1V
ISO :400
F/4.5
SS 1/2000

[Joe Senzatimore]

Nice comp. and detail. Light seems a bit harsh. Might try to tone down the gorget just a bit. It seems very hot and over saturated as well.

[Robert Amoruso]

Jan,

I agree that the saturation needs to be brought down some.

Nice perch and positioning in frame. Head turn away from you would have gotten a better beak position. Notice that critical sharpness occurs at the body and branch. You want it at the head/eye. If you are using all the focusing points, this can happen. You need to select a point at the eye, or focus at the eye, lock AF, recompose and make image.

[Grace Scalzo]

Agree with Joe and Robert. I like the composition but the lack of critical focus is my biggest issue here. Looks as if the light was quite harsh.

[arash_hazeghi]

nice colors but the head is OOF

[Morkel Erasmus]

Robert has summed it up nicely Jan...the head and beak are just not sharp enough for me here...lovely birds though and I envy you having these in your garden there where you live :)

[Daniel Cadieux]

Harsh light and focussing pointed out. I'd also tone down the perch. Lovely bird, and you did well to go to a vertical composition.

[Herb Houghton]

Nice subject Jan. The focus as mentioned is on the feet and perch. I would also remove some BG noise as well.