How to improve this

[MDoc]

Is this any good? What would you do to make it better?
Thanks for looking and all input is welcome.


http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k99/mdoc9523/IMG_4287ab.jpg

[sGu]

I would suggest to use a wider aperture next time when the foreground isn't clear. Composition wise is okay, maybe a better vantage point would improve the shot a lot.

I can see you have no problem with exposure and technical side of things, just a matter of scouting around and try different angles.

[Epluim]

Did you do a lot of PP on this? It's a little rainbow colored on my screen (but that may just be me). Still, it's a great shot.

[Guineh]

I realize it's difficult to get shots of birds, heck, I don't have any bird shots in my collection, so with that in mind:

The branches in the foreground are a bit distracting. If you could move yourself a bit (or a ways, depending on the length of the lens...) to the left, you would have had it.

There are some very strange color artifacts, I'm seeing red and green spottiness throughout the shadows. How did you post-process this image, ooc?

[Pete]

Looks like colour luminance noise to me. Shoving it into a noise reduction filter with the appropriate settings should clear it up a great deal more and lead to more naturalistic colours.

[MDoc]

Thank you all very much, I did a little noise reduction and I lightened it totry and make the sky whiter. Better?

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k99/mdoc9523/IMG_4287abc.jpg

[Pete]

This is my 2 cents worth...

Just colour noise reduction in Noiseware

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a294/peteghia/IMG_4287ab.jpg

[MDoc]

I like that Thank you Pete

[MALI]

Two branches right in front of the bird with that little ball thing hanging are distracting. Some PP might be done like this.

MALI