Wood Sandpiper.

[Satish Ranadive]

This image was created in Oct, 2012.Cropped for composition, sharpened and NR applied to BG.

ISO: 200, 1/640, F: 5.6.Evaluating metering. Exposure Bias: +0.7. 550D, 400mm.

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

[Randy Stout]

Satish:

I like the wind blown feathers, foot up pose, composition, colors and sharpness. Just for personal taste, I would ever so slightly tone down the brightness of the brown in the upper left corner.

Cheers

Randy

[Marina Scarr]

Lovely image and light, Satish. Love the feathers and the raised foot. I am seeing some remnants of work that you did around the bird's beak. I also think that your bird's head needs more sharpening b/c the wing is appearing more in focus than the head.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you both of you for feed back.
Marina,
I have not done anything around birds beak,but while applying nr selection was wrong.Here is the image with more sharpening on head and no nr to BG.

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Satish.

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful portrait, great details and colors.

[Faraaz Abdool]

Satish - lovely capture of this wood sandp. The windblown feathers and raised foot are good strong points of this image. Agree with the head looking a little oversharpened, though.

[PhilCook]

Very nice Satish, liking very much the backdrop colors and light on the bird, ruffled feathers and raised foot is a nice touch, everything is well proportioned in the frame. I find the whites on it's side are just slightly hot, but that could simply be my computer monitor, and the small areas behind and in front of the eye look a little coarse, maybe reduce sharpening on just those two tiny areas

[Lyle Gruby]

Very pretty shot. Really like the windblown feathers and foot-up gesture. Agree with what's been posted above. The light brown in the URC still grabs my attention.

[Tim King]

Really nice photo. Love the rock perch and BG.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Repost is beautiful. I love the light , raised foot and the neat color splash in the bg top left.

[Diane Miller]

Beautiful image! But not a lot is happening in all that space on the left. What would you think about trimming some of it for better balance?

[christopher galeski]

very nice image Satish,like thelight,nice pose.

[Sachin Saraf]

Satish sir, Nice image...exposure looks right and love the light and BG...re post looks improved...was this taken at Kavdi?

[David Salem]

Very nice Satish. The repost looks great and I think the sharpness is perfect. This one came together nicely with wonderful exposure, detail, perch, cool pose and BG. Well done!

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you all for the feed back and nice comments.

Regards,
Satish.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Excellent pose & colors. Very nice BG. TFS

[vishaljadhav]

Nice one Satish,
The repost is actually lovely , i guess the bird is a common sandpiper and not a wood.
i love the light in the image