Shikra Accipiter badius

[Dr.Pranay Rao Juvvadi]

Canon 1D Mark III with Sigma 500 4.5

EXIF: 1/1000, f/6.3, Evaluative Metering, Aperture Priority, ISO 500, EC -2/3

Vertical crop from a FF horizontal.

This species is known as the Little Banded Goshawk in Africa.

[Doug Brown]

Good looking bird with great eye contact. Looks a little underexposed; why did you choose -2/3 EC? Great sharpness and a nice perch and BG.

[Austin Thomas]

I like the eyes the perch and the BKGR.

I might have tried the image a little more width in the crop.

Thanks for sharing

Austin

[Dr.Pranay Rao Juvvadi]

The -2/3 EC was a blunder Doug. I had set it for a diffrent setting earlier in the day and forgot to change it. By the time I realised, the bird was gone.

[Dr.Pranay Rao Juvvadi]

Brightened the image using curves. Does it look better now?

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Great pose and good repost. I like the stare, looks so much like our Aussie Brown Goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus). Awesome stare. The whole scene probably unfolded pretty quickly, but a little more DOF would have been nice to render the smaller wing feathers sharp too. The rest is pin sharp. Congrats and TFS Doctor Pranay

[Mital Patel]

doc i like the repost but i still felt bout a bit more contrast and warm touch can boost image.
agree with Akos also.

here is little diff version.

[Charlie VanTassel]

I like the repost from Mital, but I still think that the wing area could be brightened a bit. Still, a great stare and a beauty of a bird.

[Art Kornienko]

Beautiful bird and photo, love the eye contact.

[stuart wanuck]

lovely image like the eye contact and lighter in curves is improved lovely image

[Stu Bowie]

Great eye contact, and I like the detail and colours in this. Your repost works much better. Well done.

[Harshad Barve]

great eye contact, lovely details & sharp
Mital's repost is my choice
TFS

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Repost makes justice to this beautiful bird. Love the eye contact and rock where it is perched.