Pied Butcher bird.

[hotspur (Chris)]

Not a favourite bird,but it was a good bird to practice some bird photography on.

speed 1000
iso 400
AV 8
partial metering
AV mode,hand held.

A crop,and some levels,and curves.

Thanks for looking,any comments would be good to read,as I am thinking
about getting some images printed.

Cheers

[zardos123 (Brad)]

very nice, especially the detail and catch light in the eye, i wonder if cloning out the white limb extending from the back would help, it sort of draws your gaze. thats the only thing (very minor) that i would attempt to change
regards brad

[hotspur (Chris)]

Thanks Brad for your thoughts.

[leon]

Perfectly, crisp and clean, lovely capture Chris..

Leon

[spearo (Frank)]

nice and crisp
love the detil at the tip of the beak
frank

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Agreed, the hook on the tip of his beak looks great, as does the dead stump. Lovely work.

[Paddy (Patrick)]

Lovely shot Chris. I really like the pose and the little bit of shadow falling from the brow just across the base of the beak. I like the bit of stump above the bird as well. Keeps the naturalness of the pose. And I do love Butcherbirds.