Black-naped Blue Flycatcher

[AdityaPadhye]

Black-naped Blue Flycatcher, April 2012. Near Pune, India

Canon EOS 7D
Canon EF 300mm f/2.8 L IS II USM
1/1600
f/4
300 mm
ISO 800

[Randy Stout]

Aditya:

Beautiful little fellow, sharp, well exposed, with well scaled perch and pleasant background.

I might move him slightly to the left in the frame, a bit centered for my taste.

Cheers

Randy

[Karl Egressy]

Beautiful bird, great details and the right exposure.

[jack williamson]

Neat little bird. Nice head turn and exposure. The bird is sharp on a nice perch and a great BG.

Jack

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Aditya, not easy one to nail...and you did it with a short lens. Incredible, he allowed you to come that close. nice colors, exp., pose, perch and BG. agree that its a bit centered. to my eyes, it seems oversharpened. would love to have this bird in my files. On my next visit to home, perhaps :-)

[AdityaPadhye]

Thanks everyone for the C&C :D I did think it was a bit over sharpened, will take care next time.
Point about composition noted as well :)

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent light pose and details. sharpness looks fine to me

[Arno Ellmer]

What a beautiful bird,Aditya! Great colours and feather detail.Agree on moving bird more to left and slightly higher in frame.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Beautiful shade of blue here! Details look good (including sharpness, which looks OK to me too). Agree about comp, and I wish the bird's head wasn't pointed downwards so much.

[Frank Schauf]

Excellent light, details and bg.

[Peter Seidel]

A very simple but very striking image at the same time. Not easy to do. On my monitor it looks just a bit too sharp, but not much.

The blue color you captured is outstanding.

Pete