COMMENTS:
 

Neal R Thompson MD	Interesting bird and the definition of the feathers is excellent. The upper legs lack some definition and there appears to be something coming out of the left leg (a reflection?). The muted background gives a needed depth.
Dennis Hirning, EPSA	This sure does look like a night shot. I think that I might have liked to have a little of the detail in your background by not making it quite as dark. It could give it a sense of where it was.
John Roach	Great use of layer darkening! That is still something I have not mastered. I like your little bird and especially like the feather detail. Was this made with just sunlight or was there use of fill flash to capture that detail? On the other hand, perhaps did you dodge the bird to draw out it out more?
Martha Mitchem	You did a great job at working toward the title. the bird's eye indicates it was not a night shot.
Shahron Williams von Rooij	Very skillful edits that keep the viewer's eye on your subject. Good capture of the bird's reflection too.
Mohamed Terzaki	Wonderful capture and excellent manipulation of the photo. What if we rotate it ccw 45 degrees ?

Member Bio

Sol Blechman - Biography My lifelong photography journey started with a Kodak Duoflex camera presented to me for my 12th birthday. Some 54 years later I find my Canon 20D (with all kinds of equipment in between) a wonderful replacement. I also use a Canon G6 for "easy" work or when I feel lazy about carrying SLR equipment. It has been a pleasure to replace the dark room, the chemicals and the long hours washing prints with digital imaging. Many of my pictures are taken while traveling but I also believe in the old saw about finding shots in your back yard. So birds, flowers and landscapes near home about equal the people, foreign places and objects I shoot while away. I am printing now on an Epson 2200 mostly for our local camera club. When we started with digital work a few years ago there were only a very few of us working in digital. Now the category has grown many times over and is the dominant format in the club.