Ashy-Crowned Sparrow Lark

[subramanya_ck]

Made this last week in Bangalore, India lying down flat on Ground.

BTW, how useful are bean bags for Telephoto lenses ?

Gear : Canon40D, Canon 500 f/4+1.4E
EXIF : ISO 320, f/10, 1/500, +1/3 Aperture Priority

[Juan Aragonés]

I like the extremely low angle in this image and the blanace between the out of focus areas and the sharp ones. Compoition works very fine for me, with the bird placed at the left and a lot of empty room at the right. The eye is just fantastic in terms of sharpness and contact. I would crop a bit a the top of the image and it seems to me that colors are a bit on the warm side of the spectrum.
Great use of deep of field, by the way

Regarding bean bags... you can go wrong with them, they are really cheap (even you can made one by yourself) and provide a superb support for heavy lenses. You can have a lot of positive feedback here from people who uses them but you can try by yourself :-)

[Ofer Levy]

Nice low angle. Colours look oversaturated on my monitor.

[Kiran Poonacha]

agree with ofer with the colour part, still loved the low angle here subbu FG and BG works well here..

[Tony Whitehead]

Great colour blend with the BG, FG and plumage. Agree with Juan on cropping a little from above.

[caseyargall]

great comp, i really like the colour tone, great shot!

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

beautiful warm colors,pose...I think the the image needs a bit CCW rotation

[Brian Barcelos]

Love the warmness of the light here as it blends well with the overall look of the image. Head turn is great but I wish you were slightly at higher angle so we could see the whole tail. I agree with a little desaturating but not much. Congrats

[Dave Leroy]

I really like the nice low angle. Perhaps a bean bag would have been just the thing to get the camera a tad higher and more or all of the tail. I really like the dof. Nice look back pose. Dave

[Suzanne Huot]

Nicely done and lovely warm light ,low angle works beautifully

[Brent Wellander]

Love the colours on the bird & BG....nice one!