Syke's Lark |India

[Rohan Kamath]

http://www.indianaturewatch.net/images/album/photo/19171940914ac2238bdf801.jpg

EOS Canon-40D
Sigma 70-300mm APO(Non-IS)
f/8
ISO-250
1/1000 sec.
-0.3 EC
Pattern Metering
Aperture Priority
AWB

All C&C welcome and most appreciated(Especially on how to improve).
-Cheers,
Rohan

[Mital Patel]

Rohan i really impressed with all the shots you have. you are doing extremely well and having a good knowledge and so can get nice close to the birds. congrats on this buddy.

[Connie Mier]

The oof bg is beautiful and the little flower adds a good balance. I might try to clone out that bit of rock behind the bird's neck and that speck of white below its belly.

[Ramon M. Casares]

it could use a little more USM, but the light, pose, comp and anlge are very nice.
Congratulaitons!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the raised crest, setting and BG and only wish the rock behind the bird were not there. I might also lighten the shadow of the bird a bit.

[Rohan Kamath]

Thanks for the valuable inputs everyone... I'm very new to PP and honestly suck at it... I did try to clone out the rock behind the bird but failed miserably... Hope that eventually I'll learn to do that... Thanks for the encouraging words... :D

[denise ippolito]

Rohan, The raised crest is nice and the BG colors are beautiful, and the flower balances the comp.

[Indranil Sircar]

Rohan, excellent composition with that beautiful raised crest and the flower. Love that light and colors. I probably would have preferred without the border. But that is a personal preference. TFS.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Wonderful image with nice compositional balance and super warm tones. excellent HA on the Skylark. The cloning is easy in this instance for the bird has nice clean edges. I attached it for you, I used a hard brush to clone. 10-second job really in this case. Get to work mate. ;)

well done overall. :)

[Stephen Stephen]

Rhoan lovely head turn and raised crest on this bird. The single flower balances the image well. I do like Akos' cloning work although it's always a matter of personal taste.

[Rohan Kamath]

@Ákos

Thanks a lot for the advice on cloning. It does look much better now without the rock there...
:D

[Harshad Barve]

lovely head turn and raised crest with beautiful BG
Akosbhai , VWD here
TFS

[Mital Patel]

here is what i thought of.

[Harshad Barve]

Superb repost by Mital

[Rohan Kamath]

loved the repost Mital...Thanks... could you please add what all changes you've made other than the cloning?? the bird seems to stand out much more...how did you manage that??

[Mital Patel]

hi rohan,
I've worked on selective based.
i took off bird and separated the bg and did cloning work.
then applied some USM to bird and NR to bt.

finally did some toning work (Curves) few point overall.