Indian Silver Bill

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

A silver bill raids a weaver bird nest and then occupies it. Hand Held.
1DX II
500mm
1/1000
f/5.6
ISO 250 Manual exp auto iso.

[David Roach]

Love the pose and inquisitive look. Cool bird I'd love to see some day. Does it actually use for nesting? TFS

[dankearl]

Pretty cool... Neat perch and pose.

[Brian Sump]

Sanjeev, nice to see you here.

At first glance, I found myself really liking this frame. Such a unique view at the subject with a very unique view of the nest and framed nicely in the opening there.

Pose on the subject is awesome, and although we lose the tail due to dof I think it's beautifully processed based on my limited knowledge of the species.

You might consider evicting the small nest stick coming out from the chest but you may desire to leave it pure also.

[William Dickson]

Very nice Sanjeev....This is so different and I like it a lot. Maybe f/8 would have been better, but nice as is.

Will

[Dorian Anderson]

Great frame of the weaving abilities! Face is nice and sharp and the exposure looks good across the bird. I would clone out the twig coming out of the chest and the one just above the head to the right. I agree that
f/8 would have been better as it would have rendered the weaving more in-focus. There's no reason to be at ISO 250. You gave away light that could have been used for depth of field.

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Beautiful. I agree with others.
You can move to higher ISO and be at f/8 for more depth of field.

I am thinking colors are slightly off, May be it needs subtle color balance adjustments.

I added Color Balance Filter to warm it up with Luminosity masks on Blue channel Highlights.

Let me know what you think.

TFS