Malabar Pied Hornbill

[Harshad Barve]

Dear All
Made this image with D300, 600mm, ISO 200, F5.6 at 1/160 secs
all commnets & critiques are welcome & much appreciated
Harshad

[Kiran Poonacha]

good one Harshad Bhai, The pose and natural setting looks good.. congrats..

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Cool-looking bird, good angle, eye contact and BG. I am not familiar with the species but it looks a bit undersaturated on my monitor. You could try to tone down the whites around the eye a bit. I don't find the leaves overly distracting but might remove the single branch left of the head.

[Mital Patel]

This is a fantastic image. Tuff to get in such way you have got. from what i heared. exposure, sharpness is just perfect. wish those leaves behind the face were not there. but this is what we cant do anything with so i am just fine with the image.

[Morkel Erasmus]

getting it any clearer than this in the jungle is surely close to impossible. great exposure, pose and catchlight!

[Brian Barcelos]

Harshad, Very good job considering how difficult it is to shoot in the jungle. Very sharp and great exposure. BG is busy but then again if it wasn't it wouldn't be a jungle.:D Congrats

Brian

[Loukie Viljoen]

Remarkable photo of a remarkable bird well done in the jungle, I like the environment shown.

[Rob Drummond]

Wonderful shot Harshad - great job combining a clear shot of the bird as well as the jungle habitat

cheers
Rob

[Krijn Trimbos]

Love the setting here and find leaves quite ok. Good sharpness on the head, great HA, and ok exposure maybe you could try to get a bit more out of the blacks. I agree about saturating this a bit more and excluding the branch left of the head.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Well done Harshadbhai. Love the pose and contrasts well against the green so leaves behind head are no prob for me. TFS.