Red Jungle Fowl

[Harshad Barve]

Dear all
One of the most colorful Jungle fowls we see here in India
Made this with D300, 600mm, ISO 400, 1/125, f 6.3 , beanbag on SUV shoulder
all C & C are most welcome and much appreciated
Harshad

[Danny J Brown]

Hi Harshad: I have a free-ranging Rhode Island Red named "Sissy" who would like to meet this little fella.

[Randy Stout]

Harshad:

Very colorful fellow indeed. Sharp and well exposed.
I am bothered a bit by the bokeh of the background.The out of focus highlights seem a bit harsh, so I might consider a bit more blurring of it.
I would also consider toning down the two brighter yellow leaves in the RUC.

Cheers

Randy

[Fabs Forns]

Good looking guy for sure!! It reminds me of my childhood, my grandfather raised them, different species, I'm sure :)
Agree the BG is distracting, and I know you are pretty good at blurring, so give it a try ;)

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the colors, soft light and attentive pose. A lower angle would have helped with the BG.

[arash_hazeghi]

Nice to see a different bird, love the colors agree with blurring the BG more.

[Harshad Barve]

Thanks everyone for wonderful suggations
Axel- Lower angle was not possible as we can not get down vehicle in NP
here is repost with added blurr on BG
How it looks now ?

[Stu Bowie]

Good looking and colourful fowl Harshad, and your repost is so much better. Super comp too. Well captured.

[Simon Bennett]

A fine study of a striking bird. Repost looks good.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Harshad, cannot add anything to everything said before. But this one shows the biggest problem with photographing in Indian tiger reserves. I havent visited one for 13 years....but when I do next I am going to be extremely unhappy not being able to walk. And the irony is that when they used to allow walking (in at least some of them that had tigers but were not blessed enough to be called tiger reserves...and we used to walk a lot...day and night both), I did not have a camera :-)

KD