An Evening with Swallows

[Harshad Barve]

Dear All
Made this with D700, 600mm , f8 , 1/1000, tripod , cropped , 70% of FF
All C & C are most welcome and much appreciated
Harshad

[Randy Stout]

Harshad:

I like the colors, two tone background with soft transition, interaction of birds and exposure.
The birds look a bit soft on my monitor.

I might consider more a vertical crop. To me, all the action is along the diagonal line between the two birds, and I might try to play that up with my cropping.

It looks like there might have been some vegetation in front of the perch along the lower edge of the frame, so you may not have anymore canvas there, but I might give it a go at a recrop.

Thanks for sharing.

Randy

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Good interaction and head angles. The chests of the birds look a bit hot on my monitor.

[Jim Fenton]

Like the background and the interaction between the two subjects.

Agree with Randy about the vertical crop presentation as it might bring more attention to the interaction.

The whites do look a little hot.

[denise ippolito]

Harshad, Beautiful BG colors and nice interaction captured. I like the open mouth and the eye contact they have w/ each other. Agree w/ toning down some of the whites.

[RakeshDhareshwar]

Lovely action captured here . The effort is awesome as even a 1/1000 shutter does not freeze it completely .
If I have to nit pik , I find the birds a bit soft , the whites are blown just a tad wee bit . Also I would like the image to be a bit less contrasty .

[Mital Patel]

would certainly agree on what rakesh wrote above. but looking at the moment you did really well harry.

[Danny J Brown]

Very cool action shot, HB. Some good critique above, as well.

[Arthur Morris]

Nice interaction. A bit too contrasty for me. Good head angle on the flying bird, not so good on the perched bird.

[Harshad Barve]

Thanks everyone for wonderful comments ,
Here is repost with vert compo ,
Guruji I pull down contrast ,I have frame with better HA of perched bird but no screaming at that moment,
How it looks now

[Indranil Sircar]

Beautiful composition with the interaction, Harshad. I like the vertical repost better. Great bg.

[arash_hazeghi]

Excellent interaction Harshad, 1/100 sec is actually slow for these speed demons, 1/2000sec or faster will result in sharper photos.

[Betsie Storm]

Well captured, Harshad, taking on swallows is brave. Like the BG and interaction, techs covered already.

[Arthur Morris]

Harshad-bhai, It looks much better with the contrast reduced. I would simply combine the two images as I am OK with that. (We always let folks know what we have done.)