Ashy-crowned Sparrow Lark: Male.

[Satish Ranadive]

Taken in the last week. Cropped for composition and sharpened.

ISO: 200, 1/800 @ F: 5.6.Spot metering.
WB: Auto. HH. Canon: 550D, 400mm.

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

[Jan Wegener]

great looking bird and image

[Doug West]

There's two very minor things I'd take care of for this great image.

1. Clean up the poo.
2. There's a very small, out of focus stem (or something) sticking out from the
bottom of the image.

Doug

[Karl Egressy]

Nice loking bird, great pose, perch and background, Satish. Just one little thing; I would clone out the lone OOF vegetation from the bottom.

[Randy Stout]

Satish:

I like the pose, he looks engaged, interested in what is going on off to the left.

Comp works well for this pose, could see a bit off top and right, personal preference really.

Agree with Doug about the stem sticking up.

Cheers

Randy

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you all for your comments.
Here is repost.



Satish.

[Satish Ranadive]

Satish:

I like the pose, he looks engaged, interested in what is going on off to the left.

Comp works well for this pose, could see a bit off top and right, personal preference really.

Agree with Doug about the stem sticking up.

Cheers

Randy

Thanks a lot Sir, I was posting the image at the same moment,when you were writing.I will take care of the crop.

Regards,
Satish.

[Randy Stout]

Satish:

You don't need to go to the trouble of reposting the cropped version, I just wanted to give you my thoughts on a crop option to compliment the birds pose.

Cheers

Randy

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Satish,

The repost is a notch better than the already great OP. I've never seen one of these birds, but it almost looks like he is squinting, neat!

I would add that I think the image could use some selective sharpening around the head - especially the eye.

Miguel

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Very nice pose, Satish, and your repost is composed perfectly for that pose. The exposure is very good and the bg is great.
Agree with Miguel about some more sharpening. TFS.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Satish, great advice from above, your repost does look better, and I really like the earthy colours in this. I feel selective sharpening on the head will take this up a few notches. Did I mention well timed to capture the look back pose.

[vishaljadhav]

Nice image here, the second post is surely better than the first one
Clean bg makes it nice to look at

[Robert Holguin]

Wonderful shot.
Great looking bird.
Great pose, very nice background, great light, and nice details.
Well done.

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Lovely little bird, we have a few here near Hyderabad, India. Cool image.

[PhilCook]

Good repost Satish, lovely posture, a little soft around the head, but another tweak with sharpening in just that region could remedy that

[Shawn Zierman]

Really sharp looking bird, great pose, nice background control. The repost is better than the OP and
if you apply the sharpening suggestion, the image will be even better. First time seeing this species,
and this image makes it memorable.

[Mike Veltri]

Nice looking bird, captured in a complimentary background Satish.
It looks like a bit of sharpening of the head would improve the image.