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Sanjeev,
I made an instant connection with this picture,..nice job telling a story with the lens. Opportunity: possibly a few hot pixels and the cropping on the right side of the frame. Consider a tighter crop removing the limb running along the side of the right edge. The light in the eyes could be touched up as well,..moreover tweak the catchlights and darken the pupils,..lets see what others say.
Where was this taken,..great pose and wonderful expression!
One more thing: always walk around the frame and ensure the corners and edges are clean and consider adding a +2 gray and black in selected color to pop it a bit more,..this is really good work.
Last edited by Jeff Cashdollar; 04-19-2013 at 01:16 PM.
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Jeff, Thanks for your comments and tips. This was taken at a local park here in our city (Hyderabad, India) Me and a friend have been watching these owls for a few days and they have now grown friendly I guess! There are 4 adults and three to four little ones.
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Hello Sanjeev, this is a very engaging image and I like it a lot. Very nice color rendition, tonal range, and pose. I agree with Jeff on the crop, you might even consider a vertical for this one. If you stay with the horizontal crop, which is fine, I would suggest a bit of a crop from the right to eliminate the vertical branch, which acts as an artificial boundary to the right side of the picture. There are some toasty pixels under the eye on the left, but generally the exposure looks very good. Well done, hope you get some more of this lovely bird.
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What a cute owl! I think the comments made will make this nice image even stronger. (the right eye looks ok to me, but the left eye needs some burning)
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Personally, I like everything about this shot. Perhaps my eye isn't discerning enough, but there was nothing about a few hot pixels that were readily apparent or distracting to me. Great exposure and framing on a beautiful bird.
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Hi Sanjeev, looks like you are really coming on, your images are getting better with each posting, well done.
Interesting, but no one commented on SS, at 1/80 personally I do think perhaps you are pushing it even with a tripod, but just my take 
. I also think if you had more ISO & SS then a greater DOF could also help, say around f/8. Some good suggestions on crop, but if you have it, more below would be good too. Look to applying a % Luminosity mask, and then a Linear Curve with mask on the owl, again you may need to adjust the Opacity, may just help. As it seems this owl is very cooperative and if you have better SS & DOF, try putting a focus point on one of the eyes, dead centre if they are looking head on, but try to avoid using a flash for the subjects benefit.
I think this subject is going to provide you with some excellent images and some good practice too. When you upgrade your camera body you will notice a big step change I think. 
Well done.
TFS
Steve
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