Greater coucal

[RAM MALLYA]

Shutter speed 1/400
Aperture F/5.6
ISO 400
Canon 100-400
Canon 1D Mark II N

All C&C Welcome.

[Doug Brown]

Interesting bird; love the rust-colored wings and red eye. I might selectively sharpen the head. BG is a little busy, but I like that the head is set against a clear area of BG green.

[Tony Whitehead]

Lovely Coucal image, Ram. I find these birds very difficult to get a clear view of. I like the green BG but would remove the small vertical piece of barbed wire to the right of the trunk - the horizontal strand is well enough hidden in the habitat not to distract. The red eye is beautiful.

[Randy Stout]

Ram:

Doug and Tony hit the high points. It is an interesting bird, somewhat busy background. Wonder if just a touch of fill flash might not have brought the wing and throat area up nicely.

Thanks for sharing!

Randy

[RAM MALLYA]

Thanx Doug Tony and Randy . I have sharpened the head and cloned out the barbed wire . Thanx for your comments i think i am improving a lot with BPN. Please comment on the repost tooo.

[Tony Whitehead]

Good job, Ram. I'd keep the extra sharpening away from the edges of the head as the halos there are now quite pronounced on my screen.