Masked Weaver. Not sure which of the three or four different species this is.
'A Weaver' was one of the very first user portfolios I looked at when joining DPC. And as soon as this little guy landed in the palm tree I knew what my entry was going to be.
* RAW conversion
* Very tight crop
* Little layers
* Hue / Saturation
* Dodge and Burn highligts and shadows
* Save to web
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Place: 70 out of 153 Avg (all users): 5.9312 Avg (commenters): 6.7143 Avg (participants): 5.7684 Avg (non-participants): 6.0569 Views since voting: 1005 Views during voting: 313 Votes: 218 Comments: 9 Favorites: 0
Greetings from the Critique club. First off let me congratulate you on an amazing shot. I really like this. Although I didnt vote this challenge, I would have scored it an 8 or 9. As far as why it didnt score very well, alot of voters may not know that the sibject is named weaver, BTW I beleive that is a Southern Masked weaver, but thats not your fault. Now on to the critique.
Great compostion, very good focus, and I love the colors. SHallow DOF works very well here. The only thing I might have sugested was bumping the color up a bit. I think the voters really like colors that flash and jump out to them, maybe play with the hue or saturation on the yellow and make the bird jump out a bit. Overall a great job, and I am kind of surprised it didnt score above 6. Good luck on future challenges.
Good wildlife photo and fitting for the challenge. I like the composition, lighting and color. Good luck in the challenge. Bumping up two points from my original quick glance.
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