Red Necked Falcon

[subramanya_ck]

Made this image last week in Jamnagar, India

Canon40D, Canon Ef 500 f/4 +1.4E on Wimberly Head & Manfrotto Tripod
Aperture Priority, -1/3, ISO 200, f11, 1/500

[Colin Knight]

Fascinating species, I've never seen one. I like the low angle! Eye contact is great.

I might crop a little off the top and right side here.

Why f/11?

[Randy Stout]

Well exposed here, nice detail in whites and darker areas.
I also wondered about the f/11?
I would also consider a crop off the top, but would be inclined to leave it as is on the right, because of his gaze.

Lovely bird.

Thanks!

Randy

[Marina Scarr]

Lovely capture. The details and colors look very nice and well exposed. I love the textures in the greys. I don't think you needed F11 here, but b/c you had such a clean BG I also don't think it adversely effected your capture. You may consider a slight crop off of the top and even just a smidgeon off of the bottom.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Beautiful bird, good eye contact, sharpness and BG. I might crop a bit off the top and right to make the crop more rectangular and would try to get more details in the blacks.

[Bill Dix]

Spectacular bird, new to me. Great eye contact and head turn, sharp detail, color and BG. Ditto Axel on the crop.

[subramanya_ck]

Thanks All. F/11 was an accidental error while shooting. I did not get much time as I had to crawl a long distance in marsh so as to catch this beauty from close distance. Hence I missed out on this setting.

[Don Lacy]

A wonderful looking Falcon love the red around the head.

[Tom Walters]

A great angle, well worth the crawl :) I also love the alert expression and nice lighting.

[Morkel Erasmus]

what a pretty falcon! lovely comp and exposure, well worth the crawl through the marsh :)

[pauloanjo]

Very beautifull falcon. I would just crop a litle from right.

Paulo anjo

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Congrats. this one does not get photographed a whole lot and this is a very nice picture. As suggested by others, a little crop from right will make it better. Loved the light and the eye contact. These is a small mark in front of the belly that looks a little odd. This is the same bird that used to be called red-headed merlin before, right? I still have the early-90s' common names of indian birds in my brain.

[RAM MALLYA]

Lovely shot .Amazing light of the subject .