The Beautiful Brahminy

[Kiran Poonacha]

Found this beautiful looking adult Brahminy Kite last sunday, He was willing enough to let me make some closeups.

Spec: 1/800, F 7.1, ISO 400.

Canon 40D + 500mm + 1.4TC

[Ilija Dukovski]

This is wonderful image Kiran,
The bird is a dream, great whites and colors,
BG colors are excellent addition to the overall color scheme.
Congrats!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Beautiful bird, good sharpness, composition, eye contact and BG. I would only tone down the whites on the neck, they are partially overexposed.

[Randy Stout]

Kiran:

Lovely bird and color palette in BG here. Very cohesive image. Sharp,nice HA.

Cheers

Randy

[Mark Schmitt]

Nice image. Some of the color in the BG are in harmony with the rufous values of the bird. No nits;)

[Lorant Voros]

Very impressing, Raptor Photography Master. Love the light and the colors with the BG. Thank you for sharing this beauty.

[Harshad Barve]

Excellen image Kiranbhai , what a handsome dude
TFS

[James Salywoda]

Awesome Shot! very nicely composed Kiran this is such a beautiful bird.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Indeed beautiful!! I love the composition, and the subtle HA our way. I would perhaps lower the exposure by about 1/3 stop, and would smooth out some of the smudges in LRC...but still a wonderful image. Congrats!!

[Doug Brown]

Stunning bird. Nicely captured. I might place the eye slightly left of center.

[Fabs Forns]

Magnificent is the word that come to mind.
Everything's been said, so just congrats!

[Roberto Betta]

Outstanding Kiran!

[Markus Jais]

I agree with the others. A really beautiful shot of an amazing raptor. Wonderful BG.

Markus

[arash_hazeghi]

Excellent portrait, love the details and BG. whites a bit too bright on my screen.

[denise ippolito]

Kiran, Not much left to add to the critiques already given. Beautiful sharp details and lovely BG. I have never photographed one so thanks for sharing.:)

[Gary Esman]

Let me add that I love the color of the wing, that brown is gorgeous!

[kenniepan]

WOW,

Which country is this ? And, are the brahminy kites used to human allwoing close contact ? This is very close, in Singapore, totally unable to go that near !

[Kiran Poonacha]

Thank you all dearest bird lovers for you kind appreciation and valuable suggestions. Sure will reduce the brightness of the image down a bit.

@ Kenniepan : this was made in Bangalore, India. they are shy for sure, but once in a way on "that" day, they will sure let you get very close.

[Rick Moran]

Nice portrait of a beautiful bird. Background works very well with the color of this bird.