Green Bee Eater

[pinakibaidya]

[JPS]

Hi there,
you have certainly captured a very sharp picture of the bird, we done. The bluring of the background is a little to heavy for me, I don't know if you would consider crop a small amount off the top and righthand side. If you did this I think you would also need to clone out the twig/leafs at the bottom right, to balance things up a bit.
Thanks for sharing.
Kind regards
John

[Dave Humphries]

Hi pinakibaidya,

I spent a while studying this thinking that some 'heavy handed' cloning had been done, or the lens had awful bokeh, but in the end, I decided it is just a very 'unsympathetic' background lit in an even more unsympathetic way

I wonder if toning the exposure down on the background (and foreground) might help?
Don't over do it though.

Cheers,

[Bobobird]

Excellent shot. The bird is nice and sharp.

The background is distracting as posted but not that much when looking at the larger version in the lightbox.

[Geoff F]

I would certainly crop closer to remove some of that distracting background.

But I wonder about cropping and/or cloning a bit from the left side as well to remove that small piece of twig which I find the most distracting from the bird.

[pinakibaidya]

Thank you all.Dave had posted bird photographs taken by Nikon P510?I am thinking of buying one.I can not decide whether i should invest in a new compact camera or in a teleconverter both of which are similarly priced.Awful background was due to f/6.7 aperture.Though maximum aperture at 300mm is f/5.6 i have found it hard to autofocus sometimes at maximum aperture.Any suggestion?