Scaly Breasted Munia

[Vaibhav Garge]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2466/3814538973_6d9d695bb9_b.jpg

Tech Specs : Nikon D80 | Tamron 200-500mm | f/8 | 1/400s | ISO-400 | Evaluative Metering | -1/3rd Ev | Aperture Priority

Comments and suggestions welcome.

[Anand Kavalapara]

Very sharp image. the bokeh adds to it.

Anand

[Juan Aragonés]

The lower part of the frame is a bit busy in my opinion and there is too much free space at the top. The color of the BG is just fantastic and you did a very good exposure job in such an intense light conditions. The bird is really sharp and I like the eye contact a lot. regarding the processing job I have to say that there are some clear evidences of the use of gaussian blur (?) in the lower part of the perch (lower right part of the frame) that needs to be fixed.

[Michael Zajac]

Sharp image and nice looking bird. I agree w/ advice already given.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Cool-looking bird, good sharpness and eye contact. I wish the angle were less steep and the lower branch were not there. As for composition, I would crop some off the top and left to get the bird out of the center and a bit higher.

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[Harshad Barve]

Beautiful image Vaibhav , I think Juan nailed the C & C
TFS

[Vaibhav Garge]

Thank you Juan for the comment. I haven't used any Gaussian Blur in processing the image. About the lower right part, there was something in the foreground and I do agree its distracting. I would have like to crop it off but then the compostion will become too tight.

[Mike Veltri]

Great looking bird, a bit steep and I agree with the suggestions already made.