Crested Bunting: Male.

[Satish Ranadive]

Image was created in the Month of Oct, 2012.Cropped for composition and sharpened.

ISO: 400, 1/1000 @ F: 7.1.Spot metering. Manual setting.
WB: Auto. HH. Canon: 550D, 400mm.

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

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Satish, beautiful bird, nice techs, neat perch, the HA, colours, the catch light in eye is lovely! Excellent details too!

[Andre Pretorius]

Nice capture Satish, bird very crisp. I notice on my Mac some lines in BG going from bill down and up, in different shades of green. I have noticed the same in some of my images while processing, I can only attribute it to blurring on a big crop. Can anyone shed some light on this?

[Karl Egressy]

Excellent pose datails and eye contact, Satish.
The lower part of the background is a little too bright on my computer, you might want to tone it down.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice details on the subject, good colours and nice blacks. I like the diagonal perch but wish there was less shadow on it. I like most of the BG, the leaf in LRC distracts more than adds in this case (IMO). You've chosen a well balanced vertical composition. Tail and rump seem a bit sharper than the face, perhaps that is where critical focus was at?

The lines Andre mentions look like posterization that can be caused by compression due to resizing for web.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Nice look back and raised crest feathers. BG looks like evidence of too much NR and or what Daniels said about compression

[Marina Scarr]

Lovely pose and comp but the head isn't looking sharp to me.