great crested Grebe

[ramesh anantharaman]

canon EOS 40D, 500mm L IS f/4, 1.4x t.c.

700mm, f/8, 1/1250sec, iso-400

waited in swamps for about 3 hrs to get some surreal shots of this beauty and its family after gaining their confidence.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautiful one Ramesh Bhai, I think the whites need to be toned down a bit Brother. nice pose and angle here, loved the water droplets..

[Harshad Barve]

Beautiful image , loved the pose , lighting and BG here
Where did you shoot this ?

I think the whites need to be toned down a bit Brother

+ 1 here bhai
TFS

[Varun Bellie]

What a bird, too good man I love the water droplets, a bit of underexposure in PS will make this already beautiful image to a terrific one

[Mital Patel]

Fantastic Capture.
thats surely a wonderful efforts and very well paid off ramesh.
i would try to underexpose as you have got the white's burned out.

[Mital Patel]

dear ramesh,

here i've tried something different to recover the white's and changed the white balance for some extra richness.

hope you like it.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great pose, angle, sharpness and setting. I agree that toning down the whites makes it even stronger. As for composition, I would put the bird a bit lower in the frame and further to the left as it is a bit centered as presented.

[Chris van Rooyen]

Lovely moment, beautiful low angle. I agree with Axel's comments, and Mital's repost looks great.

[Nagesh Mula]

Ramesh, its one beautiful picture very sharp and excellent pose with water droplets. I like Mital's repost here. If it was my pic, i would have cropped slightly from the left for composition. Congrats!!

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Mital's repost is spot on. Love the light and details on this bird, the flying droplets adds motion to the image. Agree about moving the bird out of the center.