Male Gang-gang Cockatoo's.

[Marios]

Male Gang-gang Cockatoo's.

[P Plates]

Good photos of this beautiful bird. I've only ever seen them in photographs. #1 and #3 would benefit from some noise reduction in the background - possibly caused by cropping. My favourite is #2, not as colourful as the other two birds but he's nicely framed and sharp and good eye contact. There is a dedicated 'birds' section in the forum you might like to post your shots in. At least you should see it - we did go through a stage where different users were seeing different things for some reason.

[Phoenix]

The second image captures my attention the most. Just love the cheekyness captured and lovely framing from the leaves.

[Alan]

Nice set

Agree with Gabby about the noise in #1. Maybe it's high ISO? But great pose and noise can be dealt with.

The exif data has been stripped and you haven't provided it. Just a thought for next time? Sometimes it's useful to include f/stop and shutter speed etc too, for getting feedback and it also helps people new to Bird Photography to see how others do it.

#3 looks a bit cramped with no room for the bird to look into the photo - not sure if you have any more pixels to play with?

#2 is a beauty . Lovely light and eye contact.

I have no photos of these parrots so green with envy - well done

[Marios]

Thank you for your input, I will correct noise. The grainy images were taken at 1/250@ ISO 500. The crisp one was ISO 100.
Standard 18 - 55 mm IS II lens kit.

[Mark L]

#2. Since you've presented a squarish crop, I hope you have a little more space in front of the bird to work with?
So add a little more space at lef and crop the right to just inside the branch that curves in and out of the frame. I find it distracting, thus taking my eye of the wonderful bird. It may also help make some leading lines stand out more and with a bit more space to the left those lines may lead to the head.
I don't care about the BG noise in the first. The pose and composition make up for it.

[Alan]

500 ISO should be fine - maybe it's the crop? What camera/lens combo are you using?

IMHO, noise is secondary (as Mark said), the subject/pose/lighting etc are beautiful. Don't sweat over it.

Have you changed/edited the order of the photos? #2 is now #1, #1 is now #3, and #3 is now #2 or am I losing it

[Marios]

500 ISO should be fine - maybe it's the crop? What camera/lens combo are you using?

IMHO, noise is secondary (as Mark said), the subject/pose/lighting etc are beautiful. Don't sweat over it.

Have you changed/edited the order of the photos? #2 is now #1, #1 is now #3, and #3 is now #2 or am I losing it

Sorry Alan did make some changes have placed back in original order. I was able to deal with the noise, I believe it was a result of little over processing. Thank you for the compliments.

[Marios]

#2. Since you've presented a squarish crop, I hope you have a little more space in front of the bird to work with?
So add a little more space at lef and crop the right to just inside the branch that curves in and out of the frame. I find it distracting, thus taking my eye of the wonderful bird. It may also help make some leading lines stand out more and with a bit more space to the left those lines may lead to the head.
I don't care about the BG noise in the first. The pose and composition make up for it.

I agree the crop is not the best, Ill give this image now positioned as number 3 another go.

thank you

[Marios]

Retry on pic 3..



How about a fly over..?

[Mark L]

Your edit looks better to me.
Now to try and get a catch light in the eye next time.