A parked Supersonic Jet

[Kiran Poonacha]

Found this Barn Swallow resting and quickly made a couple of shots before it took off.

Spec: 1/800, F 9, ISO 640, Expo + 1/3

canon 40D + 500mm + 1.4TC

[Harshad Barve]

Kiranbhai
This is teriffic shot , getting them perched and that too on natural perch is something special:) , lovely use of f9 , nice BG and superb HA
TFS

[Raymond Barlow]

wnderful image Bhai, beautiful light, and supeb details.

[Steve Kaluski]

Kiran, an excellent execution of a lovely looking bird. The bg complements the bird very well in showing of the beautiful colours and detail. you were very lucky with the perch too.

cheers
Steve

[Randy Stout]

Kiran:

Lovely colors, soft BG, excellent sharpening on bird.

I like that the perch is scaled properly for this bird, looks delicate, just like him.

I might consider removing the little bit of twig sticking up on the lower branch stub.

He does look streamlined like a jet!

Randy

[Trivedi Ashvin]

Beautiful image Kiran! The caption is also great! :)

[Krijn Trimbos]

Excellent HA, great colours, nice little perch for the species, and beautiful detail! Great shot!

[Ilija Dukovski]

Great one, great HA considering the pose.
I love the long outer tail feathers. Great bird.

[Ashay Dhavale]

Excellent image!

[Arthur Morris]

Kiran-bhai,

This is superb on all counts (as most of your images are). I wish that all the folks concerned about the next greatest camera would spend there time studying and practicing so that they could make photos this good with the equipment that they have.

Love the exquisite BKGR and the SH here. And the dead perfect head angle. I'd surely keep the "Y" part of the little branch but get rid of the little tiny piece of dangling bark (or ???)

[arash_hazeghi]

Nicely done Mital, excellent details and what a nice BG. A very minor point is that I see some grain on the dark feathers, easy to remove. Well done Kiran!

[Mark Theriot]

Very pleasing shot, these are gorgeous looking and you captured a "quiet" moment!!

Congrats!

Mark

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Such a beautiful image. Love the vibrant color and detail as well as the incredible eye contact. Outstanding !! Thanks for sharing Kiran.

[Peregrine Craig Nash]

One of the best Barn swallow perching images I have seen absolutely lovely.

[James Salywoda]

Beautifully photographed Kiran stunning shot. Congrats!

[Dave Leroy]

You have captured it well. The sleek, speedy look, lovely colours and a perfect perch. Good for you. Dave

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Kiran....perfect as always. You have captured the shine perfectly.

[A_Maddah]

Hi Kiran
very nice and pretty. Congrats!

Asad

[Kiran Poonacha]

Thank you all for all the love and encouragement.
Also thank you for your Valuable suggestions.

@ Randy and Guru, At first I thought the tiny piece adds a bit, but I agree with you it does distract will take care of it. Thank you again.

regards,

Kiran.

[Juan Aragonés]

Kiran-bhai,
This is superb on all counts (as most of your images are). I wish that all the folks concerned about the next greatest camera would spend there time studying and practicing so that they could make photos this good with the equipment that they have.

Hi Kiran, I totally agree with Artie :)