Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Magpie-lark and prey

Magpie-lark and prey edit

Original - A female Magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca) which has just captured a small moth from the grass.

A rare moment where the image depicts a female Magpie-lark hunting for food in which this moth unfortunately fell victim to and which I believe is a difficult moment to capture as often such birds may not allow you to get close enough to photograph them (this one didn't seem too concerned). If not worthy of FPC or VPC, I'm looking for comments/constructive criticism to further improve on my skills so that I can contribute more high quality, high value images to Wikipedia.

Articles this image appears in: Magpie-lark

Creator: DeltaFalcon ^{talk / contribs} 08:49, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested by: DeltaFalcon ^{talk / contribs} 08:49, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Nice timing, the image seems like it has too much contrast though, and I'd get lower to the ground if possible. There are some pretty high quality magpie lark photographs already in the article, so I'm not sure that your chances of success would be great. Noodle snacks (talk) 00:52, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It's quite good, but does seem very saturated. I think there's also an existing FP in the article? Perhaps a little unsharp on the bird - the focus looks like it might have hit just a bit forward as those leaves just in front of the bird seem to be just a bit more in focus. The bokeh in the background is also a bit odd looking and I don't find it particularly attractive, looks almost like an oil-painting or something; you didn't do anything to that in post processing did you? Could be the lens. --jjron (talk) 18:59, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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