The Ashy Crowned Sparrowlark

[Riju Bhattacharya]

Its very funny to watch these little guys playing around in the dusty places! Very cute birds...

D90 | Sigma 120-400
400mm, f/8, 1/1000s, ISO-400

[Mital Patel]

Riju this is really clean image sharp enough .

Some nits though the signature is over the tail and disturbing the overall view.
the placement of bird seem way too left and down with wich my ideas is to crop from top to reduce blank power of bg having the Pano crop as i would worry if you add bottom the perch will overpower it.

the exposure seems a step of two below normal that you might wanna boost and the stick on the belly can get rid off.

hope you dont mind the expected views.

[Saverio Gatto]

Riju this is really clean image sharp enough .

Some nits though the signature is over the tail and disturbing the overall view.
the placement of bird seem way too left and down with wich my ideas is to crop from top to reduce blank power of bg having the Pano crop as i would worry if you add bottom the perch will overpower it.

the exposure seems a step of two below normal that you might wanna boost and the stick on the belly can get rid off.

hope you dont mind the expected views.

I totally agree. I would add I notice a strong yellow cast on my mnitor.

[Don Nelson]

I agree with both comments -- the signature causes my eye to leave the bird and look closely at it. That's not what you want.
And I find that the cast is both yellow and red -- if you Filter->Blur->Average on a duplicate image, you'll see the effect. Once this is toned down, you can also lighten the image just a bit.

you might also consider recropping -- leaving a bit of room on the left and removing some, but not all, the space on the right.

[Melissa Groo]

A fine image, though agree on the signature comments above and the cast. I also would suggest darkening the dirt a little bit, as it seems to pull the eye more than the bird, at least to me. Thanks for sharing (and welcome to BPN!)

[Riju Bhattacharya]

Thanks for the comments everyone

Sorry about the signature...bad place to put it I agree! Let me check on the color cast...will reprocess the image and share the results...

[Arthur Morris]

Riju, Nice bird and setting but the bird is too dark and the image is a bit too saturated... And I would lose that distracting stem.... Be right back.

[Arthur Morris]

Sort of like this. All as described in detail in our Digital Basics File. Neat species BTW :).