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Comments, advice, critiques and ratings are appreciated.

Thanks for looking.

Well chosen DOF and superb sharpness contribute in no small way to the success of this shot. I like the fine gauze like detail in the peacocks crown, and the sharpness of that ever watchful eye.

Best Regards

Alf

Nice capture! It looks like pose for you and at same time looking cautiously. I like how well it stand against background. It need little bit more sharpens, but overall it colorful and well presented.

  Grigoriy

Thank you.  I have never been close enough to one before to see the details in the elaborate head dress they wear, it really is lovely. You can the details better in the original. I felt priviledged to bet so close to this peacock. I later learned that they are mooches, he was hoping I had something nice to eat.

Thanks. I thought he was posing too. I got several shots of him up close.  He and his friends were quite tame. That watchful eye was looking to see what I had in my pockets, wondering if I had treats. The original was sharp, at least I thought it was. You could see more detail in the feathers. It lost some of that when I reduced and saved it as a JPEG.

Is nice and could be also very good subject for your on next photos,I read about you did with sharpness and i can tell you about what I saw here on PN.This site has a different compression compare with  other sites(same photo here is less sharp than on other site and for this I did a sharper version always for PN),also when you process a photo do it completely ready before resize,when you save in resize window try to save it as ''bicubic sharper'' or if you save ''bicubic'' do an unsharp mask after but make this carefully to be not to sharp,this is what I observed about how things work here.My best regards,wait for news from you.

Beautiful capture of this Peacock Linda. Excellent definition in the plummage and face. His expression makes me wonder if he is 'keeping guard' over his 'harem' :-)

Very nicely presented as well. Warm regards,

Gail

Wonderful capture , beautiful composition,colors and details .............. Best regards.

This guy really is handsome and knows it.  Excellent portrait and I like how the background lines take our eyes to the subject.. Mike

Very nice presentation, the important areas like the beak and the be seems to be perfectly sharp. I love that radiant blue  and the background is nicely subdued. I use CS5 for the reduction and i also use the bicubic sharper. One internet photographer said that you should reduce the size once only and that is what i have been doing lately. I sharpen it a bit for photo.net. I look at it to see what i like re sharpening and when it looks good, I go just a tad more for photo.net.  With this photo I would do selective sharpening on the peacock which means that I duplicate the image, sharpen that layer, add a vector mask and then highlight with a paintbrush, just the areas you want sharp.

By the way - a fine image rated 6.

Just curious - did you shoot with a medium telephoto almost wide open?

Thanks everyone for the comments.

Radu, Thanks for the advice. I wondered why my images never seem as crisp as they do before posting on PN. This is really helpful and I will try it.

Gail, he was just hanging around, very relaxed, he didn't seem concerned about anything. There were several females and some other males but no fighting, unlike the roosters who would explode into huge screaming, squawking fights at the drop of a hat. The island was over run with chickens and roosters.  I just walked up to him with my camera in his face and he gave me different poses.

Falak, thank you. I am glad to hear that you like it.

Verline, thanks so much. 

Michael, peacocks really seem to have a high opinion of themselves. There is no getting around the fact that they are incredibly colourful and beautiful.

Tony, thank you. I have CS4, I am not familiar with the bicubic sharpener. I will have to  check this out. I have heard that every time you save an image as a JPG it deteriorates. I always save as a TIFF until I am ready to reduce for posting.

I used my Canon 25-70mm 1:2.8 L zoom with a B&W UV Haze 1X filter. It is an excellent portrait lens and is very versatile. I use it most of the time, it's always on my camera. I forgot to add the tech. info. Here it is if you are interested.

Shooting Mode            Aperture-Priority AE

Tv( Shutter Speed )     1/125

Av( Aperture Value )  5.6

Metering Mode            Evaluative Metering

Exposure Compensation          0

ISO Speed       200

Auto ISOSpeed         ON

Lens     EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Focal Length    70.0 mm

Image Size       3888x2592

Image Quality  MRAW

Flash   Off

FE lock            OFF

White Balance Mode   Daylight

AF Mode         One-Shot AF

AF area select mode   Zone AF

AF Microadjustment   0

Picture Style    Portrait

Sharpness        5

Contrast           1

Saturation        1

Color tone       0

Color Space    Adobe RGB

Long exposure noise reduction            0:Off

High ISO speed noise reduction          2:Strong

Highlight tone priority 1:Enable

Auto Lighting Optimizer          Disable

Peripheral illumination correction      Enable

Dust Delete Data         No

File Size          12775 KB

Drive Mode     Low-speed continuous shooting 

Thanks again for your interest in my work. I appreciate your advice.

All the best.

Linda

Tony has right,I forgot to tell you that very useful is to use selective sharpening so you can choose what you want,my best to you.

very nice portrait, I agree with the comments of Radu and Tony, I also have the same problems, ciao Giangiorgio

Radu, thanks again.

Giangiorgio, thanks for visiting.

Linda,

  Wonderful image of this beautiful bird with great colors & sharpness.  Thanks for sharing.  Take care, Patsy

Thank you!