Archemides the lovebird. He doesn't like plants terribly much really, so there was a lot of putting him in the plant....using the remote... letting him fly to my head and get a treat. And then doing it again. Taken with double green-filters on the flash to make the shadows green rather than grey. Best out of about 20 tries and then he got irritated and decided to sit on top of the curtains for a half hour and squeak at me in derision.
Crop to get the pot out of the picture. Saturation, sharpen. Size for web, sharpen again.
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6 - Ok, possibly a set up, possibly 'opportune', either way, even though obviously 'domestic', I like it. Criticism; seems just a fraction blurry, so sharper focus if it were possible (but you may not have had much time). The colors are nice but I think that a touch more saturation (but I can discern the beginnings of contrast issues even like this), enabling the greens/oranges to be more vivid, may have made this better in my opinion. Possibly also a different crop, if possible, with a bit more space above the escape artist's head, not sure. Lights on the leaves, while similar in coloring with the bird (and even though out of focus/'softened'), still slightly dominate/compete with the coloring of escape artist and therefore detract slilghtly in my opinion.
the colours of this are beautiful. I makes me think of something, but I haven't figured out what yet... avocado green, almost retro, if a bird can look that way.
My only nitpick would be that the leaf that shines in the background is the only really 'shiny' part of the image, the rest is so smooth, and it takes a bit away from the overall texture. -9
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