Bay Backed Shrike

[RAM MALLYA]

Shot this one in harsh light


Shutter speed 1/1000
Aperture F/4
ISO 400
Lens 600 mm IS Canon
Camera body 1D Mark II N
Tripod
C&C welcome

[Randy Stout]

Ram:

Great pose, nice BG, wish the stick over the tail wasn't there,like the image composition.

Head seems a little soft.

Good job on the exposure under these conditions.

Cheers

Randy

[Ofer Levy]

Nice pose and BG. IQ is not great - is it a big crop?

[Daniel Cadieux]

Great bird and setting. I too wish the branch didn't overlap the tail. I agree the IQ is not up to what it could be...either a large crop and / or jpeg compression (as posted the BG suffers from lots of posterization).

[Doug Brown]

Pretty bird with good eye contact. Perch could be better, and image quality issues have been addressed above.