Great Spotted Rosefinch

[Somendra Singh]

Great Spotted Rosefinch (Carpodacus severtzovi)
The temperature was around -10C and an icy wind was blowing. We were at Gorakshep, near the Everest base camp at an altitude of about 5200 m. I stepped out of our lodge to start walking down towards Lobuche when I saw this Great Spotted Rosefinch happily enjoying the weak sun. It was very confiding and it let me approach to within 10 meters.

Camera Canon EOS 50D
Shutter Speed 1/800
Aperture f8
ISO 500
Lens Eos 300mm f4 IS L + 1.4x

Cropped square

[Randy Stout]

Somendra:

A big welcome to BPN. A great place to learn and grow as a nature photographer.

Nice look back pose, head could be a few more degrees our way for stronger sense of eye contact.

Sharp, with good depth of field.

Soft background.

From a comp. standpoint, is a bit crowded into lower corner. More canvas might help that if available.

Please be sure to include your camera/lens details, and post processing details as well.

Look forward to more.

Cheers

Randy

[S Roy Choudhury]

Lovely shot!

[Nancy Bell]

Somendra, Your white text is very difficult to see. Could you use black? The Rosefinch is quite nice and the soft subtle browns of the background is perfect.
5200 m is a really, really high altitude! I know I would not have enough breath to even lift my camera!

[Richard Unsworth]

Somendra, welcome

Really nice shot and bird is lovely, good points above - a new species, keep them coming

[Daniel Cadieux]

Terrific bird with a lovely frosted look to the plumage. Perfect techs, and a beautiful background. I agree with a better head angle, and I think this would have been better balanced as an horizontal composition with less above, a bit more below, and more at right.

P.S. I changed the font to black as it was invisible against the page's white backing (thanks Nancy!)

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Welcome aboard. Must have been quite thrilling up there.

nice details, exposure, BG and shooting angle. I am afraid the aqaure composition is not working for me here. A traditional composition will be better IMO. The room on top is not adding a lot. It does seem a bit cramped in one corner. Shot is excellent...a different crop and you have a fine image.

[Somendra Singh]

Thank you all for the warm welcome to this forum and for the valuable critiques.

Yes Kaustubh, it was a great trip. Have put up an illustrated blog of the visit, and also a gallery of images of Mt. Everest and other peaks, on my website. Do have a look if you are interested :-).