Common Stonechat: Male.

[Satish Ranadive]

Image was created on 1st Dece, 2013. NR applied to BG. Cropped and sharpened.

ISO: 400, 1/500 @ F: 5.6. Exposure bias: +0.7.
WB: Auto. HH. Canon: 550D, 400mm.

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

[Karl Egressy]

Excellent looking slightly wet bird against background to die for, Satish.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Very nice pose & BG. I also like the composition.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Satish, great look back pose, and I like the 'small' perch protruding into the frame. Love the smooth BG, and if anything, I would add a touch of contrast and maybe tone down the overall image. Here is my version with a bit off the LHS and top too.

[Richard Unsworth]

Very nice indeed Satish, Stuart repost is too but both are fine.
These are not easy even though common -well here anyways

[keith mitchell]

Satish two very good versions of this bird I think I just prefer the darker one, I do really like the way the perch comes into the frame and the pose of the bird and the bg is great.

[John Robinson]

Satish
I still reckon a little more "punch" is needed.
Looks a little flaton my gear.
Nice birds.
JR

[Holger Leyrer]

Wunderfull pose, perch and BG. I like the darker repost.

[christopher galeski]

nice image,like thepose,I think Stuarts repost is a little bit better.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you every body for your feed back and beautiful words.
Stuart Sir, Thanks a lot for your work. It looks superb.

Regards,
Satish.

[Grace Scalzo]

Satish, Some nice tweaks made this fine image sing. This is beautiful. I love the colors, the perch and the droplet, in addition to the finely posed bird.

[Shawn Zierman]

Beautiful little bird Satish, and teed up very nicely on that quality perch. I like the space better in the original image, but I do see that adding more punch with contrast like Stuart did helps the image along nicely. I think I'd prefer an in between version best, though isn't that what someone typically says when two versions of tone are offered?:t3 Another suggestion would be to clone out that little blip of vegetation or whatever in the lower right hand side of the frame, just barely visible...