Upside down: Purple Sunbird.

[Satish Ranadive]

This is the previous frame of the same bird which I have posted few days back.

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Image was created on 22nd Feb,2014.Cropped,sharpened.NR applied to BG.
ISO: 1600, 1/2500 @ F: 6.3. Exposure Bias, +0.7. Pattern metering. Shutter priority.
WB: Auto. HH. Canon: 550D, 400mm.

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

[Doug Brown]

Unique pose and good sharpness. I might have stopped down a little and sacrificed some shutter speed to get the whole flower in focus. I would be tempted to increase your saturation some. And there seems to be some haze in the URC that could be improved with a localized contrast boost.

[Bill Dix]

Terrific shot, Satish. I love the pose, and the detail and background are lovely. Perch is too, although I agree that it would be nice to see the flower in focus. But still a spectacular image.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Excellent acrobatic pose, Satish. Nice perch and BG. I too noticed the haze that Doug mention, and agree that adding a bit of contrast may help.
Lovely iridescence captured. As always, amazing fieldcraft and nice processing for the high ISO. TFS!

[John Robinson]

Excellent !
Trouble is I want to turn it the other way up !!!
Your usual quality with just a hint of background which suits me.

Cheers
JohnR

[Marina Scarr]

Killer pose, colors, perch and BG!!!

[Frank Schauf]

Excellent pose, details and bg.

[Satish Ranadive]

Satish, stunning image and great action/pose captured.
I wonder why you work in Tv mode and not in Manual, given the circumstances ?

Peter,
Thanks a lot for the comments. I rarely use shutter priority mode, this is one incidence b/c sun and clouds were playing hide and seek.
Our climate has changed suddenly within last two months.I did not have option.

Regards,
Satish.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you all for the feed back and nice comments.
Doug Sir, Sidharth, I will take care of saturation, contrast and also will check the haze I URC.

Regards,
Satish.

[keith mitchell]

Satish you have made an excellent job of this smashing looking bird, tried to photograph these myself and failed ,wish I could get one at this standard.

Keith.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Beautiful image Satish, unique upside down pose. Nice capture.

[prashant thakar]

great image with wonderful details and nice bg.
I like the details on this small bird I have also tried a lot to get this bird in decent pose but still not get any image