A White Eyed Buzzard Pose

[Kiran Poonacha]

A pic of a sub adult just getting his white eye.

Spec:1/400, ISO 800, F 9, -1/3

Canon 40D + 1.4 TC

[Harshad Barve]

Killer pose with great details , surreal lighting and BG
Winner all the way , Big congrats
TFS

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Beautiful specimen, good eye contact, light, angle and complementing BG. Details look good, too, particularly considering that it is at ISO 800.

[Keith Bauer]

Wonderful pose with the nice look back. love the curved perch. nice capture.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice! You waited until the perfect head angle to press the shutter button. I can't believe how white the iris is, very intriguing! I would probably crop about half of the space below the tail.

[Krijn Trimbos]

Gorgeous lookback pose, excellent light, good BG, details and colours. While I like the composition I could do with a bit more room on top.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Kiran,
Lovely image. The head turn works fine. I would crop a bit from the bottom. The curved perch looks good to me. Any cloning done to the background? Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Stu Bowie]

Hey Kiran, you have the best of both worlds here. Good HA and pose, and showing detail from the back and wings too. Overall sharp, just love that stare, and what a killer BG. Well captured.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Thank you all dear people for your kind words of encouragement and most valuable Suggestions. I kept the bird on the top left to avoid centering.

As suggested I have taken off some room from the bottom and added just a wee bit on the top and also reduced the right side a bit to balance off, tell me if it looks ok.

@Sabyasachi Patra : I have just cloned out one dark patch in the BG near the left of the branch.

Thanks again,

Regards,

Kiran.

[Doug Brown]

A real stunner Kiran! The white eye is mesmerizing. Love the look-back pose, soft light, and soft BG. The curved perch is quite nice too.

[Gal Shon]

Excellent! Well done.
I love the look-back, beautiful eye, sharpness, BG, lovely light and perch.
I prefer the Comp of the OP

[Chris Kotze]

Superb detail,colours and BG. Super exposure and light

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Awesome raptor image. Many of us just admire your work on those bosses. Really nice eye contact and details all around.

Szimi

[Ramon M. Casares]

Lovely light, pose, detal, DF, BG, pose, comp and colors! Big congratulations!

[David Fletcher]

This is a cracking shot Kiran for all the reasons stated. prefer the OP. Nice one.

[Nate Chappell]

Gorgeous shot with great eye contact and lighting, congrats Kiran!

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Great repost. Lovely species.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Kiran,
I like the repost.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Chris van Rooyen]

Classic portrait, great head position and light is fantastic. No crits from me:-)