The Indian Roller

[Kiran Poonacha]

Got this beautiful bird this morning sitting in a termite hill enjoying the sunrise. We both did actually.

Spec: 1/800, F 5.6, -1/3, ISO 400.

Canon 40D + 500mm + 1.4TC

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

I Iike the warm colors,pose,details,bg!

[Chris Kotze]

Sharp and excellent colours and BG. Congrats on a super image

[Kobus Tollig]

Great tight shot. Like the colours. I would lighten it just a bit. Also see a halo on the chest area and on left off the "ant hill". Did you blur the bg?
Great shot well done

[Kiran Poonacha]

Thank you all for your Kind words.

Thanks Kobus Yeah I did notice the halo and went back and checked the RAW too, that too has a slight halo thats blew up after PP. Here the repost with the corrected halo and a little brightness, hope it look ok.

[Kobus Tollig]

looks MUCH better well done

[Kiran Poonacha]

Thanks Kobus and sorry I forgot to add. I did not blur the back ground just darkened it a bit.

Thanks again.

[Lorant Voros]

Kiran; great photo again. Nice bird with beautiful colors, good BG and nice composition. Repost looks better. Congrats.

[Juan Aragonés]

SUPERB textures in th eplumage and what a great soft light. The eye contact is very good and love the perch. A bit of more room at the left to avoid centering of the bird would be great.
Very good job!

[Ramon M. Casares]

I agree with Juan about comp, but light, colors, species, sharpness, detail, BG and perch are great IMO.
Congratulations!

[Connie Mier]

Beautiful colors, sharpness, perch, bg, it's all there!

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Incredible work Kiran. great BG and pose. Simple and very punchy! :)

[Nancy A Elwood]

These are one of my favorite birds! Everything said above in spades!! I like your framing, just enough space. Big Congrads!!

[Nagesh Mula]

Kiran, as always its very sharp and beautiful picture with nice HA.
Infact you have captured many birds from India in a beautiful fashion and am sure made it a hotspot for lot of photographers, wanting for an opportunity to come and take pics in India. Congrats!!

[Stu Bowie]

Stunning light, colours and detail Kiran. Super pose with a great HA, and what a killer BG. Great image.

[Markus Jais]

Awesome shot. Great light and colors. Fantastic BG.

Markus

[Ryan Lambert]

Super image and detail captured here Kiran, is this FF if not I would add a bit to the right to get that eye more central, however a super image as is...

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

You are killing me Bhai :D
This is incredibly nice. I am speechless. :)

Szimi