Hoopoe.

[Satish Ranadive]

Image of preening Hoopoe was created today morning.

Basic editing. Cropped for composition. NR applied to BG.

ISO: 400, 1/1000 @5.6. Spot metering. Manual settings.
Canon 550D 100-400 mm.

Thanks for viewing, critiques and comments,
Kind Regards,
Satish.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Excellent preening pose, Satish. Nice to see this amazing looking bird in an other than usual stance. Beautiful light and detail.




Geoffrey

[Karl Egressy]

Interesting pose and excellent details, Satish.

[gail bisson]

This is excellent Satish.
Great light and love the preening pose.
Nice BG as well.Excellent DOF.
Good one!
Gail

[Daniel Cadieux]

Excellent preening pose, lots of good details, and the green BG sets off the warm colours of the subject very nicely. A pretty darn good look at the tail feathers! Well done Satish.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you all for your kind comments.

Regards,
Satish.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Satish, love this preening behaviour, which in turn is showing off his plumage nicely. Good DOF, sharp, and great that you have a smooth BG.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you Stuart sir for your kind compliments.

Regards,
Satish.

[Grace Scalzo]

Wonderful image, Satish. I love the preening pose and fine details. Rich background adds nicely to this frame.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you so much grace for your appreciation and kind compliments.

Regards,
Satish.

[William Dickson]

Lovely preening pose. The details on the bird are beautiful. Nice capture.

Will

[Gabriela Plesea]

Hello Satish,

One of the most difficult birds to capture around here, such a busy body and very skittish. Even the local Gymnogene is a lot more "accommodating"...

I have given up on photographing this species, I see a Hoopoe on the lawn every morning when I open the windows, but as soon as he sees movement he flies away, LOL.

Very cute preening pose and lovely details, as well as colours - I have to congratulate you for this, super capture and PP work is excellent:)

Kind regards,

[Satish Ranadive]

William and Gabriela, Thank you so much for your kind comments.

Regards,
Satish.