Southern Grey shrike.

[Satish Ranadive]

Image was created in the month of Dec,2015 in the very late evening lights.
Basic editing. Cropped for composition. Eye lighten.



ISO: 800, 1/320 @5.6. Spot metering. Manual settings.
Canon 550D 100-400 mm.

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

[Randy Stout]

Satish:

Nice angle in frame, good job on lightening the eye, adds some spark. Perch well scaled for this bird.

Composition fits ROT well. I could see trying a few options on the crop, but because of the layout of the branches, where the crotches are, etc., this is probably best.

Cheers

Randy

[Daniel Cadieux]

Good composition for the small in the frame subject, and the bright sky has been well handled. Just for a cleaner finish at the lower edge I would eliminate the oof stuff along the bottom, as well as the lone stray leaf at left.

[Arthur Morris]

Clean and simple with a classic image design. Good job on the EXP too.

Best thing about the image? Perfect head angle and subject-to-film plane orientation. a

ps: many believe that if a subject is small in the frame the last two things that I mentioned no longer matter. They do.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you very much Randy Sir, Daniel Sir and Arthur Sir for your great feed back and kind compliments.
Daniel sir,
I will take care of oof stuff at the bottom.

Regards,
satish.

[christopher galeski]

very nice Satish,like the pose and perch,pleasant light.TFS.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Satish, nicely perched high and mighty, and good DOF throughout the image. Nice clean BG too.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you very much Christopher and Stuart sir, for your kind comments.

Regards,
Satish.

[Marina Scarr]

This is one heck of an image. Love your choice in composition which is ultimately what makes this small bird in the frame work so well.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you very much Marina, for your kind comments. Regards, Satish