Changeable Hawk Eagle

[Harshad Barve]

Dear All
Posting here after so long.
Here is CHE from Yala national Park Sri Lanka.

D300 , 300/f4 at F4 , ISO 400 , I am loving loose frame here. Would love to know your thoughts too. This is 80% of FF
All C & C are most welcome
Harshad

[Ken Watkins]

Hard to tell whether this is a dark or light morph, but whatever it is it is a nice pose.

Do you have a little more at the bottom just to eliminate the slight clipping of the lowest branch?

[Bill Dix]

Great pose, Harshad. I like the loose crop showing the environment. Ditto Ken's comment about clipping the lower branch. I know it can be very green in Sri Lanka, but to my eye the greens look just a tiny bit oversaturated and distract from the beautiful bird.

[Don Lacy]

Hi Harshad, I like the use of the environment here and the pose of the hawk. A few sugestions would be to selectively sharpen and lighten the eyes and crop from the right to make the subject more prominent in the frame

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Harshad, terriric pose indeed. Agree with others regarding a tad more space below would be better.

Its not easy to get so close to them...wonderful job. Sharpness looks excellent to me.

[wendell westfall]

Harshad: I like habitat shots, and I like this one; though is does look a bit like the bird was cutout and placed against the background to me. Maybe the bird was selected in PS using a rather"hard edge" border . . .

[denise ippolito]

Harshad, Nice to see you in Avian. I like the loose crop, I do agree w/ the comments above regarding the lower branch. Wonderful pose and details.

[James Salywoda]

Awesome setting and composition captured Harshad excellent shot.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Agree about bottom branch. Otherwise it is wonderful, the pose is really exciting mate. Well done! :)