Hi Rakesh, shooting from a car makes it even more difficult. Sharp where it counts, and pops nicely from the BG. When shooting birds, my ISO is never less than 400, thus creating faster ss. I would liked to have seen this with 'frozen' wings.
I always like a incoming shot. I would have prefered the wings to be frozen, agree with a higher ISO. I might have also used 0.0EV exp. compensation, that way one gets more detail out of the black feathers and shaded head. Overall a beautiful image well done Radesh
this is simply awesom. loved the position and the low angle of bird in eye level. its really difficult in our place to get such shots and u did great work here bhai
Excellent shot - super focus, the title makes me look for the tail which is also 90% sharp - I really like it. Having seen the commenst regarding the wings I agree - but have to admit I like it as it is.
Rakesh, terrific head-on angle and BG. Loving the water droplets too.
Count me among the ones who would have liked sharp wings. Judging by the ISO, you intended it to be a blur perhaps. Otherwise, ISO 200 on that camera for action shots does not make sense. Even if there is a remote chance of getting an action shot( and it is never remote with birds :-) in good light, even on my 40D, I set the ISO to 320.
I also think a tad more room at right will be better.
Yeah ! Frozen wings would have been better . But this was something I wanted to get ....blurry wings . ISO 200 is something I rarely use , othe than when there is very good light . Most of my images are ISO 640 and above . Almost a full frame , except in hindsight , I think I could have used the traditional 6:4 crop instead of this squarish crop .