Juvenile White-eyed Buzzard Butastur teesa

[Dr.Pranay Rao Juvvadi]

Almost FF image. USM at 100/0.4/0. Hope it looks ok!


Camera Model Name
Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Shooting Date/Time
8/13/2008 18:00:06
Tv(Shutter Speed)
1/1000Sec.
Av(Aperture Value)
F6.3
Metering Modes
Evaluative metering
Exposure Compensation
-2/3
ISO Speed
640
Lens
500mm Sigma 4.5
AF mode
AI Servo AF

[John Chardine]

Yes this looks OK- which is a huge under-statement. It looks fabulous! You have all the hallmarks of a great image in my opinion here- beautifully smooth, complementary BG, good perch, pose, and head angle. Is that a sun or flash catchlight in the eye? The only thing I would suggest as an improvement might be to try gently lightening and boosting the contrast of the image using Curves or Levels, although this might be just my monitor.

[Erich Stevens]

This is a great image, nice and sharp, and a beautiful bird. Love the BG too. To my eye it looks underexposed by a stop. Can you increase the exp in RAW or boost the highlights?

[Daniel Cadieux]

Apart from being a bit dark, this is a fine image indeed. Great pose, with a perfect HA. I wouldn't have minded if you had pointed your lens down more by about an inch or so.

USM at 100/0.4/0. Hope it looks ok!

Sharpness looks good from here!

[Dr.Pranay Rao Juvvadi]

Thanks John and Erich for your comments and advice, appreciate them.

Is that a sun or flash catchlight in the eye?The only thing I would suggest as an improvement might be to try gently lightening and boosting the contrast of the image using Curves or Levels, although this might be just my monitor.

It is the setting sun. I will make the adjustments and repost.

To my eye it looks underexposed by a stop. Can you increase the exp in RAW or boost the highlights?

Actually I did increase the brightness, but I guess it needs a bit more.

[Markus Jais]

I agree about the brightness with the others.
Aside from that minor thing, this is an fantastic shot. Wonderful light, color and a perfect BG. The head turn is great and the sharpness perfect.

Markus

[Brian Barcelos]

I agree with everything said above. Spectacular catch and beautiful species. Good sharpness and BG. I'd prefer less room to the left and a little more on the right. Congrats

Brian

[Dr.Pranay Rao Juvvadi]

Increased the brightness with curves. Have I over or under done it?

[Milan V]

Very nice image, maybe a little bit brighter.

[Gene Potter]

I think light was fine to begin with. A very nice exposure to be sure. I would not change a thing…

[Adams Serra]

Beautiful picture of a great looking bird. The repost looks better than the original

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great angle, sharpness, light and BG. The repost looks better on my monitor. I only took the midtone slider to 1.20 to lighten the image.

[Harshad Barve]

I am very much late here i discussions , but nver the less , this is beautiful image improved after every pane, Axels's repost is nice
all in all I liked it very much
TFS

[Rohan Kamath]

really loved the BG,HA, catchlight and details... spectacular image sir...Axel's repost has enhanced an already fantastic image even more...

[denise ippolito]

Beautiful image. Details,pose,HA and BG all look great! Nice repost by Axel.

[arash_hazeghi]

Excellent pose, sharpness and killer BG, eye is perfect, what else can you ask for?

[Mital Patel]

Dr. Pranay,
this is indeed a fantastic image.
i am just fan of your raptor series.

for specifically this image i like what Axel did and i've added a bit more to the image i've attached.
plz share your views.

did some tonal contrast to bird and smoothness to bg and a step brighter.

there may be compression visible in bg but that is due to again and again of re-processing.. some patches visible on my lcd as well in bg but i focused more on bird and this is quick output. so plz bare with me.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

HI
Love the image. Period. I like all the little additions in processing and do feel the lighter version is a touch better. PErfect HA and if I may add, if this were mine I would crop about 1/3 from above the head. Thanks for sharing :)

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautiful one Doc.. such a good pose and details.. I agree with Akos Bhai with the crop.. great image.. congrats...

[Simon Bennett]

Fabulous image - especially like the pose, intense eye contact, crisp presentation and smooth background.

[Mohanram Kemparaju]

Beautiful image to start off Doc, what Axel /Mital did was just superb, nice tocuh to make it a notch better

[Subharghya]

I loved the final version from Mital but it is a Top Nothch image to start with else no processing could make it this much Smashing !!

[Dr.Pranay Rao Juvvadi]

Thank you all for looking and commenting, appreciate it. Thanks to Axel and Mital for taking time to improve the image, much appreciated.