Preening: Black Headed Munia.

[Satish Ranadive]

Taken today morning.Cropped and sharpened.Few dark spots are lighten,NR applied to BG.
Your opinion about composition is highly appreciated.

ISO: 400, 1/400 @ F: 6.3. Evaluating metering. Exposure bias: 0.Manual setting.
White balance: Auto. HH. Canon: 550D, 400mm.

Thanks for viewing and appreciation. C & C are highly appreciated.
Kind Regards.

[Shawn Zierman]

Composition is lovely. I like the sheen on the bird's plumage from the great light quality.
Great eye contact mantained during the preen scores some difficulty points.
The background looks a little photoshopped in places, with some repetitious patterns here
and there that look like post processing work....not quite like I would think bokeh would
look like...

[Karl Egressy]

Nice preening pose, striking colours and nice background, Satish.

[Randy Stout]

Satish:

Good critique from Shawn re: BG. Overall, very pleasing, the comp works for me. For personal taste, a sliver bright, could try a version .25 less exposure

Cheers

Randy

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Nice preening pose and I like the crossing reeds of the perch . I'd like to see a little off the botom.

[David Salem]

Good looking shot. Like the preening pose and you captured it well. Nice BG too. Burn tool on the flank would help with the hot spot. I agree with Cheryl to take some off the bottom. Well done.

[John Cooper]

A very nice composition Satish of this Munia preening. A small crop off the bottom just below the lower reed would work best for me

[Melissa Groo]

Lovely preening capture, Satish. I'd be interested to see a bit cropped off the bottom and a little less exposure/brightness.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Satish, excellent exposure on the Munia, with a good preening pose. Im fine with the placement, but agree toning down the BG wont harm the image.