Bird #4

Critiques and ratings welcome. Khawar

Strict clear composition, great background. Poor lighting. Shadows would have given depth and dimesion, then that extra dark in the pix, would have given balance. Digital failed to give us natures brilliant, live colors, and..fine textures. Mediocre optics didnt help.

color, composition and lighting is right on...

Too bad TTurk's eye sight is failing him...I believe he's played with the Stop Bath and Fixer for too long....

Why did you remove natural background? photoshop added background is simply not

working here.looks very artificial.

B E A U T I F U L .

This is a dead bird. This kind of bird eat seeds and not insects. The caterpillar he hold is a monarch caterpillar which is toxic and avoided even by insect eater birds. The scale between the caterpillar and the finch is too much different. This is a very small bird with a relatively big caterpiller but on the photo, we can see a "giant" bird with a tiny caterpillar. Also, birds that would eat caterpillar hold them firmly, not like this "cut and paste" one.

 

I know that this is a iconographic photo, which is certainly well done, but I wanted to inform people that everything see on this photo is unatural and false.

Excellent Saleem, best regards.

I'm agree with johnatan. good but false picture

The photo appears to have been shot in a studio with a dead bird. There is a reflector above and to the left (see catchlight), maybe a softbox to the right, and some directional lighting from the left. As far as the caterpillar in its beak, it seems to me that the attraction and drama of animal behavioral shots (which an animal catching its food would be) comes from observing the natural behavior of the animal. And the skill of the photographer in that regard is like the skill of the hunter - patience and anticipation. So although the colors are great in this, and the photographer shows skill with studio lighting, the whole concept doesn't work for me.

Excellent Saleem, best regards. 7/7

Hello Saleem very nice capture with wonderful colours have a nice day from jose:))))))))