Ashy crowned sparrow lark

[prasanna av]

Ashy crowned sparrow lark female.
1/1000, f 8, ISO 400.
Shot from a car using a Beanbag.

[bhavya joshi]

Wonderful image here.. Love the Pose and Clean BG, Nice details also.. TFS

[PhilCook]

Lovely fine detail and smooth backdrop....there is hoiwever a distinct magenta color cast to the image

[Karl Egressy]

Nice pose and details, The rock and part of the bird has this greenish blueish cast. Is it the real colour or just a colour cast?

[prasanna av]

colour cast. attempting to take it out.

[prasanna av]

I hope this is ok.
Tinkered with colour balance a bit.

[vishaljadhav]

Prasanna
this is a sharp image , very nice
can you let us know the time the image was made, somehow the light in 2 images is very different hence knowing the time of the day may help.

[prasanna av]

image was made at 10 Am. in earlier image i had chosen a auto WB while processing which gave a blue and magenta cast.
The second image has the WB as actually shot [Daylight}

[vishaljadhav]

Thanks Prasanna,

I guess IMHO the light at around 10 would be something like this,

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Prasanna, color cast is an issue here. If mine, I'd play with color temp. in RAW conversion first before fixing the cast in photoshop.

I like the pose, BG and shooting angle. But there are a couple of issues. (a) head is a bit soft. could be DOF issue with critical AF on the wing instead of the head. (b) IMO, the bird is too centered. Having it a bit to the left in the frame will be better. That will also remove the distracting OOF rock in LLC.

[Diane Miller]

Color casts can be very frustrating to see, and often difficult to deal with in an image with muted color.

And of course monitor calibration can be an issue.

The last post is more natural-looking.

[PhilCook]

Agree the last post looks about right

[Satish Ranadive]

Prasanna:
Beautiful image.Very nice pose,details and BG.
I think,you could re process the RAW file again.Re post in pan #9 tough look better.

Regards,
Satish.