Indian Roller in flight.

[Satish Ranadive]

Image was created 3 years back.
Basic editing. Cropped for composition. I have reduced saturation quite a bit.



ISO: 800, 1/3200 @5.0. patterning metering. Exposure Bias +1.3 at 250mm.
Canon 7D II, 100-400 mm.

Thanks for viewing, critiques and comments,
Kind Regards,
Satish.

[Bill Dix]

Great looking bird, Satish. Nice to see him in flight. Good pose with fully opened wings showing all the color. And good bg too. Thanks for sharing.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you very much Bill Sir for your appreciation .

Regards,
Satish.

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[Joseph Przybyla]

Beautiful bird, nicely shown. Difficult angle coming straight at you. Thank you for sharing, Satish.

[David Salem]

Nice capture Satish. Not easy to get the coming straight at you shot so good job with the focus lock.
Your frame has a bit of haze to it and is lacking a bit in the black channel.
Hope you don't mind me working on your nice image.
I boosted the darks in levels, increased the lights a bit too.
I added canvas to the bottom to help with the comp and then cleaned up the BG on the top half. Another round of smart sharpening, fixed the black of the eye to make it more circular and then added a catchlight.
Let me know what you think

[Colin Driscoll]

A splendid shot and David's post makes it even better.

[Bill Dix]

I knew this needed something, but couldn't define it. David's repost brings it to life. Amazing how much difference just the catchlight makes, not to mention the other interventions.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you Joseph, Colin, Bill Sir for your appreciation.
David, you have done a great job on my bird and it looks absolutely superb. Thanks a lot for your time.

Regards.
Satish.

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[Randy Stout]

Satish:

A really unique pose, I rarely see this one head on, but with a neat head turn.

Excellent work by David to polish it so nicely.

Cheers

Randy

[Satish Ranadive]

Randy Sir,Thank you very much for your likes and kind comments.

Reards,
Satish.

[Brian Desjardins]

Hi Satish, great shot, beautiful bird, the colors are awesome, love the pose and head angle, I thought maybe the head could "pop" a bit more then I saw the edit David did and it just came to life even more. I still like both either way. Great job. TY for sharing!

[Bob Smith]

A splendid bird in this well executed head-on capture Ratish. I liked your OP but it's amazing what a talented post-processor can do---thanks David for showing us that<script type="text/javascript" src="safari-extension://com.ebay.safari.myebaymanager-QYHMMGCMJR/b78d8197/background/helpers/prefilterHelper.js"></script>

[Satish Ranadive]

Brian and Bob, Thank you so much for your kind compliments and likes.

Regards,
Satish.