Black Headed Munia: Juvenile at breakfast.
This juvenile Munia was imaged in the last month. Green branch in front of beak is removed.
Bright spots in the BG darken. BG looks little bit bushy, but as it is, selective NR applied. Cropped for composition and sharpened.
ISO: 400, 1/400 @ F: 6.3.Evaluating metering. Exposure bias: +0.7.Subject distance 5.5m.
WB: Auto. HH. Canon: 550D, 400mm.
Thanks for viewing and appreciation. C & C are highly appreciated.
Kind Regards.
Last edited by Peter Kes; 12-16-2012 at 09:40 AM.
Nice species. Just seems a bit too bright. Also find the vegetation in front of the bird to be distracting. I imagine that this bird likes to stay in cover , so probably not easy to get a clean image.
Very nice light quality. Exposure looks good to me. I like the feeding behavior, particularly because it shows well
and you achieved a nice head angle, considering the bird is foraging. There are some grasses to the right of the bird
and down just a bit that look cut off, probably due to the photo shop work. Would be interested to see the grasses
prior to the PS work. Regardless, it's a nice eye level image of this bird living it's life.
Joe and Shawn:
Thank you very much for kind words.Here is OP without any cloning and with reduced brightness.
Satish.
Hi Satish, love the feeding behaviour, and good DOF throughout. The OP is a touch bright and I would like to ask why you went with a + 0.7 EC. That may be the reason your image turned out a bit bright. Your repost has however addressed that - well done.
Stuart Sir,Originally Posted by Stuart Bowie
Thanks for the comments and I am happy that you like the image.I was taking pictures of adult Munia's,which were in shade,
that is why I had increased the EC and suddenly juvenile came in on other side which was in sunlight.Moment was so good I did not decreased it.In fact forgot !!!
Regards,
Satish.
Very nice Satish,I can relate to the difficulty in getting such species in the clear!
I like the feeding too and actually prefer these types of images showing where they live abnd feed.
OP was certainly over bright , repost is much better.
I am thinking the sun was quite low, from the catchlight? I guess the +.7 was to brighten him up aq bit!
Very nice repost, and I think I like it better with the foreground vegitation in place. Nice capture of such a small species
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