A Kestrel Female

[Kiran Poonacha]

These beauties visit India during Winter. Was able to get this one preening in the morning light.

spec:1/1250, ISO 400 F8 -2/3

I have cloned out another mound close to the tail.

[John Chardine]

Beautiful ruffled look Kiran. The image is very sharp and I love the background, perch and lighting. Very well done!

[Stu Bowie]

Kiran, pin, pin sharp, and what a great pose. Brilliant detail, comp works well, and I like the BG. Congrats.

[Graham Smith.]

Kiran, a very nice capture!
I really love the feather details on this.

[Tell Dickinson]

Kiran, very nice bg sets off the bird very well, lovely shot.

[Paul Ricciardi]

Kiran
What a lovely shot! The clean background really lets the viewer appreciate the excellent feather detail you've captured here. The pose is really dynamic as well.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Very nice image, here it is not very easy to get so close to these little predators. Love the light, pose, perch, BG, colors and detail. Congratulations!

[Chris Kotze]

Excellent capture. Sharp and lovely colours and comp

[Scott Frye]

These are just coming to my part of Arizona and I would really like to get one as sharp as this one. I particularly the headson angle as these are most often at treetop here. Very nice as presented

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Lovely shot. I like your use of aperture to make sure the entire perch and bird is sharp.

I see some kind of a halo around the entire beak-to-breast area.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the angle, light, details, pose and BG. I agree regarding the halo around beak and rock and would put the bird a little bit further to the right in the frame.

[Randy Stout]

Kiran:

Lovely picture as critiqued above. My only minor point would be to bring up the eye a bit, to give a bit better catchlight, which would make it a bit more lively. Just a bit, it is really close.

Thanks for sharing.

Randy

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Superb pose, details which makes most of us jealous :D

Szimi

[Morkel Erasmus]

this is excellent! lovely capture, sharpness and detail. I would consider adding a bit of 'dodge' to the catchlight in the eye, but not a nit.

[christopher galeski]

nice one sharp,nice pose,nice bg,I would like a bit more room on the left,well done.thanks.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Dear All, Thank you for your valuable inputs,

I have redone the PP trying to retain more natural colours and removed the halo. also gave a little more room around.

Pls comment.

regards,

Kiran.

[Juan Aragonés]

Superb image Kiran, love the pose of the kestrel, the ruffled feathers and the fantastic BG.