Close-up: Green Bee Eater.

[Satish Ranadive]

ISO: 800, 1/1250 @ F: 6.3.Evaluating metering. Exposure bias: 0.0.Manual mode.
White balance: Auto. HH. Canon: 550D, 400mm.

Thanks for viewing and appreciation. C & C are highly appreciated.
Kind Regards.


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[Randy Stout]

Satish:

Great colors, plumage and eye, which really pops. Open mouth gives some action to the image. Even though a bit square, I think the comp works well with this pose and head position.

Sharpening is right on the edge of too much for me, but I tend towards less rather than more, most will like it!

Hope to see more of this fellow!

Cheers

Randy

[christopher galeski]

nice colors good BG,nice detail,love the eye.thanks.

[David Salem]

Beautiful profile Satish. Everything is perfect on this one. Wide open mouth makes the shot special. Great exposure and detail. Love it and think its one of your best.

[Mike Landwehr]

Hi Satish, while not a big fan of square crops, I like it in this case. The background is fine, and the feather colors are super. But, it's the wide-open beak and the bright red eye that make this image a standout for me. I do feel that backing off on the sharpening a bit would strengthen the image.

[Bill Dix]

Stunning image: colors, eye, open beak, details. Square crop works nicely here. Well done, Satish.

[Lorant Voros]

I like the square crop here, the detail and the open beak. The image is way over sharpened in my opinion, otherwise very nice.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Gorgeous shot Satich - great exposure, I would suggest a little less sharpening, maybe just maybelower the brightness just a tad.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

nice looking bird with a great pose....wish for a crop above

[gareth thomson]

Great work Satish - wonderful moment, lovely colors, and spot-on exposure. I would agree w/ Jon and Randy about sharpening, but if its over sharpened, it's just by a tad. Not sure I would change anything.

[Ivan Ellison]

Nice image, does seem very sharp on my monitor.Great pose to catch him in. Colours are spot on and the gray BG sets him off well. Cant seem to make my mind up with the square crop. Maybe because I am used to seeing mainly portrait and your mind gets used to seeing this. A lovely bird and one I wish to see in the future.

[Marina Scarr]

Love the calling pose and the colors are just over the top. The image looks a little oversharpened and I am seeing some halo effect around the beak. I just tried a vertical crop and personally preferred it to the square. Well done.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the open beak, red eye and colours. It looks a little over sharpnened to me as well. Nice close-up Satish!

[Shawn Zierman]

Awesome image. Love the expression and life showing in the subject.
I also like the square format. The image is over-sharpened imo.

[dankearl]

I agree with all the kudos, a very nice close up, the sharpening is an easy fix.

[Daniel Cadieux]

What a neat animated pose, and the colours are nothing short of explosive! Oversharpened from my end too. It may not seem like much, but the faint diagonal streak from upper bill tip to ULC should go...my eye just keeps running along it for some reason. All else looks A-1.

[Robert Holguin]

Excellent image!!!!
Love the open beak, excellent feather details, great background, and very nice light.
A tad oversharpened.
Well done.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you all for your kind comments and suggestions.
Here is the re post as suggested by you.

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Regards,
Satish.

[Randy Stout]

Satish"

Repost is excellent. Good job!

Randy

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Satish, great close up of the open beak, and although a touch bright, the colours are spot on. Your repost is a great improvement, and running some NR on the BG will improve it further. :w3

You are posting some great images recently - keep it up.

[arash_hazeghi]

nice calling pose and great light. repost addresses the oversharpening in the original

[Jonathan Ashton]

Satish this is better, I too would say almost there, just a tad more NR on the background and fraction less bright.

[Satish Ranadive]

Satish this is better, I too would say almost there, just a tad more NR on the background and fraction less bright.

Thank you all once again for your kind comments and suggestions.

Jonathan:
I hope this will be fine image in all respects.
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Regards,
Satish.