“Merry Christmas”.

[Satish Ranadive]

Wish you, your Family and Friends “Merry Christmas”

Regards.
Satish.


This immature Paradise Flycatcher male was imaged in the March, 2012.Cropped and sharpened. NR applied to BG. Perch toned down.

ISO: 1000, 1/500@ F: 7.1.Evaluating metering. Exposure bias: +0.7.Av mode.

[christopher galeski]

nice one Satish,nice BG,great pose with the mouth open,Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family.

[PhilCook]

hahahahaha....just what we dont need...Christmas Carol Singing birds hahahahaha ......that's one heck of a mouth he has there, love it Satish.!!! And thank you for the Christmas well wishes, and I would like to wish same to you and your family....Peace and Goodwill to all on this big blue planet :wave:

[Jonathan Ashton]

Merry Christmas Satish, you have wonderful details and a fine pose.

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Hi Satish. Great pose, very nice details and the calling pose is a big plus. Merry Christmas to you too.
sanjeev

[Nick Palmieri]

Love that pose..Merry Christmas to you as well!

[Melissa Groo]

What an awesome picture, Satish! Merry Christmas to you and yours too!

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Satish, great show of the open beak, and love the colour of his head and crest.

Happy Christmas to you and your family too.

[Steve Wasson]

Great shot of a beautiful bird.Love the open beak!
Merry Christmas and a blessed 2013!

[gail bisson]

This image made me smile
,Love that wide open beak.
merry Christmas and a happy, healthy new year to you and your family,
gail

[Stan Cunningham]

Happy Holidays, great shot.

[Karl Egressy]

Fantastic pose with the wide open beak captured, Satish. I wish you Happy Holidays.

[mohammad reza shahab]

Hi Satish. Great pose, very nice details and the calling pose is a big plus

[Arthur Morris]

Sharp and dramatic. Love the detail in the mouth and those ling whisker feathers. A Surface Blur on the background only would smooth it right up. Try something like : 3/4 for the Surface Blur.

[Amol Khedgikar]

This has to be the one of your best of the species. Patience and persistence around sinhagad and Diveghat (if this is from that area) can really be rewarding.

LOve the details. the iridescence on the head and crest is beautiful you got the perfect angle for that.

Techs look good.

[RakeshDhareshwar]

Nice sharp , lotsa character with that open mouth and a superb BG to go with it !! Awesome !

[Julian Mole]

Hi Satish,

Lovely image. Great eye contact and timing here, capturing the bill at it widest gape. I love the wonderful bluey-green of the iridescence feathers on the head and the whiskers around the mouth, the technical details are very good with the subject frozen with good detail on the bird and perch but nicely isolated against a diffuse neutral brown background. I also like the use of a vertical frame and the generous amount of space around the bird resulting in a nicely balnced image.
However in the original image, as presented, I felt that such a good base capture was let down by appearing somewhat muddy (all midtones and few highlights) and a had a slight cyan cast, therefore I have taken the liberty of tweaking the image in Photoshop, I hope you like it.

Seasons greetings,

Julian.

(Adjustments= Levels: highlights and midtones adjusted, Curves: Linear contrast @ 89% opacity, Colour balance: +3 red in midtones, Dodge Layer: lightened the dark feathers around the eye, Saturation: +3, selected perch and brought back some contrast to it. All adjustments done on a colour calibrated monitor using a colour managed workflow)

122595 (http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8362/8311057654_750e0ccebb_o.jpg)

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks Julian. I am not seeing any major diffences--hard to do that while scrolling, but I appreciate that others are willing to do reposts :S3:.