White-browed Fantail

[Mital Patel]

White-browed Fantail
(Rhipidura aureola)
Thol Bird Sanctuary, Gujarat, INDIA

May 08, 2011, 80am
Taken with 1D Mark IV, 500 F/4, 1.4X TC
1/800, f/9, ISO 2000 @ 700mm

It was truly an amazing sighting after a week to seen them in nest feeding by mother very next week we track them like this big and flying little here and there branch to branch and giving mother a feeding calls. These two little sibblings were so crazy and excited to the new world we watched them for almost 2 hours tracking their activity and photographed them from car.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Wow, what an adorable pair, Mital.
Just love this one. Awesome look back poses from both of them, huddled up together with killer light and bg.
Love the horizontal perch too.
It appears that focus is on the back and not the heads, but it looks sharp enough for the presented size, at least of my work monitor
Very well done!

PS:
By the way, great comp and welcome back!

[Mital Patel]

thanks sid yeah focus was on back i realized at home as we were really scared to movements and we took this from gypsy window just popping a lens little out to not scare them or make them aware about our presence as we were hiding our car behind small tree watching through. also there was no support for lens and with such excitement lots of chances for errors.

light yeah it was a bit spotting light through dense trees and mother was so active she was just taking big round of check almost every time she grabs hunt for the kids :)

but yeah the moment was unforgettable and so writing so much here ;)

[Alan Murphy]

Such an appealing and cute image. Wish it was mine.

[Ron Sprunger]

Truly spectacular, touching image. Well done indeed!

[Randy Stout]

Mital:

Precious moment captured for sure. Very sweet.
Focus point mentioned, but still very effective. Lighting is excellent, just enough off the the left to give them some form.

Congrats!

Cheers

Randy

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Mital, really glad to have you back. loved the moment....very engaging and intimate shot. well done on all fronts. good call on the f-stop.

[Melissa Groo]

Such an adorable portrait! Love those tones and the look back and the comp. It does seem the focus on the back but I think this works just fine here. Great job capturing these two!

[yogesh_puranik]

mitralbhai..superb what a cute pair nice dof bg..and lovely impact..TFS

[arash_hazeghi]

Great Mital, too bad the focus fell on the tail and it's a bit noisy but you caught a great specie which makes up for the technical issues. you may want to reduce the sharpening on the tail to equalize the apparent sharpness of the tail versus the heads.

Very cute shot, keep up the good job.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Wish it was mine too, actually wish they were both mine to kiss all over they are so darn cute. A really nice image and amazing at ISO 2000.

[RAM MALLYA]

Simply super image of the cute lil birds.

[Mital Patel]

thanks a lot friends for your kind words and suggestions. every image in itself is a tutor for next time so i am sure if i get next such chance i may quickly look for all this steps to remove mistakes in this :)

[RakeshDhareshwar]

Mital bhai !! This is awesome . Wish your critical focus was on the head .... but lucky you stopped down to f9 ...to get the head in relative focus !! Look forward to see more of your work here ....looks like you were hibernating .

[Emily Norman]

This is absolutely adorable and an incredible capture at that. The dark tones are so rich and lovely.