Abyssinian Roller

[Ignacio Yufera]

An Abyssinian Roller taking off from a cereal stem, Senegal.
Unfortunately light was poor and the original image was quite noisy (Canon!).

Canon 1D MkIV, Canon 800 mm, 1/1600 @ f/8, ISO 1000

[Randy Stout]

Ignacio:

Excellent timing, good angle in frame with nice full down pose, like the stalk, adds nice balance and tells the story of what is going on, good background. Might consider softening the edge of the large dark mass just in front of the bird, a minor point.

The bird is just a bit soft to my eye, perhaps a side effect of noise reduction.

All in all, a striking image, with perhaps a bit more sharpening to head to further improve it.

Cheers

Randy

[Per-Gunnar Ostby]

As Randy says the stalk really adds to this image, but of course the action and capture is what makes this a great image

[Melissa Groo]

Absolutely stunning bird. Great capture and comp. I wish too for more sharpness on head. Lovely BG.

[arash_hazeghi]

you captured a nice pose, image is quite soft however.

[Dumay de Boulle]

image is a tad soft but a great BG and lovely light...Sharpening a touch more would help...Nicely done Ignacio