Green Beaut-2

[yogesh_puranik]

This is with continuty of my earlier green bee eater image. Canon 500D|Canon 55-250IS Lens|F8|ISO 400
C&C are MOST welcome

http://www.indianaturewatch.net/images/album/photo/15955546554d00481b85487.jpg

[Randy Stout]

Yogesh:

I like the colors, the long thin perch repeating the thin line of his tail, head position.

Cropping is an interesting challenge. If the IQ will tolerate, I would do a version cropped in a bit from the left.

It looks like there might be some cloning marks along the bottom of the frame edge, esp to the right of his tail, and possibly some centrally.

You have done very well with the limited reach of your lens.

Cheers

Randy

[Aidan Briggs]

Nice BG, soft light, and pose. I agree with Randy on the crop. I could also see a version with a bit more contrast.

Looking forward to more!

[Jim Crosswell]

Nice image Yogesh! I like the pose, perch and BG. I also see a crop with some off the left. I would also clone out the OOF bug(?) to the right of the bird under the perch.

[Marina Scarr]

Lovely pose, angle, perch, light and bird! BG looks natural to me, but I can see where someone might think there could be cloning. I would like to see a little off of the left, but I can see you probably left it there so that you could show the entire perch. However, the perch is almost touching the left side so I dont' think it would hurt to crop.

[yogesh_puranik]

thank you all for comments and suggestions. Actually as observed by Marina: 1. I have kept the crop for entire perch 2. there are no cloning artifacts. all those are natural BG patches.
May be i can try again on cropping.