White bird

[marcelo_valente]

Hello everyone!
I took this shot during my vacation and would like some expert critique on shooting animals. This was one of my first tries at capturing birds with my new camera. I also tried out on a few monkeys that were around but that will be another tread. I think I did pretty well here in terms of composition, specially because of the background color, but I would like to hear some advice from the experts, if you could please give any feedback I would really appreciate it.

Thank you very much




Exif:
Camera Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS
Exposure 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 250 mm
ISO Speed 800
Exposure Bias 0 EV

[DocSkalski]

I'm no expert, but i think this image would have been best served by keeping the grass in the foreground in the bottom 1/3 of the image, instead of splitting the image in half with it. It's the least interesting part of the image and it takes up nearly half of it. Otherwise, i think the image is well composed, and I agree the color in the background really makes the image pop. Great job focusing as well!

[Laurenbiz]

The bird looks great, but I'm looking at a huge amount of green foreground grass! I'd crop out some of the bottom part of the photo.

[Krusty79]

I'd say the colors in the foreground, the colors in the background and your use of DOF really bring out the bird's colors. I'm glad you did not put the bird right in the middle of the frame like I have seen on many other animal shots.

[JoanieA]

I would crop it a bit and get rid of some of the grass, bringing the bird into the bottom third of the photo, but keeping a lot of the colorful background. Just my opinion.

[aprillove20]

Loved it! great exposure and the colour treatment.