nikon d 300 iso 400
m 1/1600 @ 7
300 mm lens
nikon d 300 iso 400
m 1/1600 @ 7
300 mm lens

Looks like from Ding Darling? Nice fluffy feathers.
no tryo believe it or not gatorland
Stuart, i like the subject and the pose, lots of color here. The BG is a bit distracting. I would consider a tighter crop. I keep getting drawn back to how much color this guy has. TFS
Nice pic, sharp and detailed.
A couple things I noted, it doesn't have color space embedded into the file; to me it looks a little "flat/ washed out". But it looks the same in other browsers so I don't know if it's "just" a browser color management thing.
It looks to me that it's slightly overexposed overall and seems a bit yellow in the BG.
It also looks like it was composed in an attempt to follow the "rule of thirds". In this case I don't know that that is necessary or beneficial. There's a bit too much distraction in the BG and nothing in it of great benefit to the image.
Here I did a different crop (ignoring the rule of thirds), adjusted the color balance and did a levels adjustment, dodged the eye and tried to recover some detail in the breast feathers (not much luck there, you might get more from the RAW). I also cloned out some of the remaining BG hot spots. Having never seen one, the bird might be a touch dark now and a bit of lightening would add BG separation.
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Last edited by Steven Kersting; 05-07-2011 at 11:14 AM.
Thanks for your efforts looks better
I like the repost improvements.