Portrait: Jungle Myna.

[Satish Ranadive]

June, 2012. Cropped and sharpened. Dirt on beak is cleaned.

Canon EOS: 550D, 100-400.
Av mode, F: 6.3, 1/500, ISO: 500, Spot metering, White balance: Auto. HH.
Exposure bias: +1/3 stop.

Thanks for viewing and appreciation. C & C are much appreciated.
Best Regards.

[Daniel Cadieux]

This is a beautiful bird, lovely blue eye, and neat "hump" of feathers near the bill. Techs look good, and I like the background and colours. I'd sharpen some of the prey items a bit more. I would also crop some off the the top and left. The biggest issue here though is the HA, which is angled away from us...it would have been much more engaging for us had it been angled towards us.

[Doug Brown]

The blue eye of this bird is quite striking! I can only echo Daniel's excellent critique.

[Richard Unsworth]

Another echo here, wonder what lunch is, nice composition and good techs

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[jack williamson]

Good critique from Daniel, plenty sharp and detailed. A head turn this way would have put beak and prey in the dof.

Jack

[Robert Holguin]

Very nice shot. Excellent feather detail, great background, and I too love the blue eye.
Well done.

[PhilCook]

yum yum...Centerpede for lunch...I hope it tasted better than it looks.

Lovely image Satish, the slightly raised feathers shown the fine detail well, and love the blue eye, rather nice colour tones in the background too, perhaps crop a little more from the top

[Arthur Morris]

Neat bird. Good techs on the image but with the bird facing away it just does not work for me....