Black Kite

[Mital Patel]

Black Kite (Milvus migrans)
Camera : Nikon D300
Lens : Nikkor 80-400D F-4.5/5.6 ED VR
Exposure : 1/800sec @ 400mm
Aperture : f/8
ISO Rating : 500
Captured On : Aug 01 2009, 12:18 pm
Location : Dabhla, Near Mehsana, Gujarat, INDIA

Feel free for C&C

[Harshad Barve]

I am loving this image , I feel this is FF
Nice HA , great BG and wonderful sharpness
TFS

[Harold Davis]

mital, with the wings being clipped, i'd go even tighter taking some more off the right side. and maybe some off the top too. beautiful bird with lots of detail. there is a small spot right under it's tail feathers that is a bit distracting. easy to fix.

[Doug Brown]

Like the pose, even light, and sharpness. I find the bird's head a little too centered in the frame; I'd probably move the bird slightly to the right. I would also remove the tan area in the LLC. I think a contrast boost would help. Thanks for posting!

[Stu Bowie]

I feel the placement of the bird is fine, and I like the gliding posture, together with the head turn. I would maybe take some off the top, to in line where the sky meets the green.

[Rohan Kamath]

wow...this is gr8...superb HA and sharpness...the position of the bird too works for me...i'd take a little off the bottom though to remove the small brown patches in the LLC and LRC

[Kiran Poonacha]

Cool pose Mital, loved the details and the out of frame attention of the Bird.. Yeah i too feel the Bird is too centered, would suggest some crop on top and clone out the brown patch at the left bottom of the frame. still a lovely image.. congrats..

[Desmond Chan]

I like the exposure and sharpness, but I prefer other wing positions. Too bad that the wing tips are clipped. Unless it's your artistic decision, I think the final result would have been better if you zoomed back out from 400mm given that you used a 80-400 zoom.

[Dr.Pranay Rao Juvvadi]

mital, with the wings being clipped, i'd go even tighter taking some more off the right side.

Agree with Harold. I like it as presented too. Nice sharp flight image.

[Gene Potter]

Wow, A very nice capture. Good DOF and sharpness. I would be tempted to clone out the brown patches on the bottom left and right as well the small spot behind the tail.

[Mital Patel]

here is the re processed with the dot on tail bottom and brown patches at bottom cloned out.
thought the crop is just fine to me as i liked the way wing spread and it was really tuff to capture in a dull light cloudy day as she was coming towards just me and very fast at low angle to focus and capture.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Hey Mital
What a great catch, though FF would have rocked more. However, a tighter crop would be better this case perhaps? Well done on tidying up the bottom of the frame. Much better! Thanks for sharing. :)