) Portrait: Pond Heron in Breeding Plumage.

[Satish Ranadive]

One black spot and one OOF leaf at URC are cloned.NR applied to BG. Cropped and sharpened. I hope HA is ok. Perch is bigger for Pond Heron.

Canon EOS: 550D, 100-400.
Av mode,F.6.,1/640,ISO:640, Evaluative metering, White balance: Auto. HH.
Exposure bias: +0.3 stop.
Thanks for viewing and appreciation. C & C are much appreciated.
Best Regards.

[Randy Stout]

Satish:

Lovely fellow, first one I have seen in breeding colors. The BG colors go well with bird. Nice eye contact. Yes, the perch is a bit massive, and its size is emphasized by the lighter BG.

The head, although probably a sliver away, works pretty well because of the good eye contact.

Cheers

Randy

[arash_hazeghi]

nice pose and a good BG, agree with Randy about the perch it also appears a bit soft to me

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Satish, super pose, and a heron I havent seen before. Interesting breeding colours, and I like your BG colours too.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the pose, lighting and BG. Well done Satish!

[gail bisson]

I like the pose and the BG. I see some weird pixellation around the legs that is probably due to imperfect selection of the bird to do NR on the BG,
Gail

[Daniel Cadieux]

Great pose, and yes the HA is perfect. When it comes to big perches...if they are horizontal or relatively so, what I like to do is to crop to have them anchor the whole bottom of the frame. I like the effect it gives almost every time:

[Karl Egressy]

Nice image, the repost looks better.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thanks a lot everybody for your comments and suggestions. Agree with Gail Bissno about weird pixellation around legs ,in future I will take care while applying NR TO BG.
Thank you very much Daniel for composition and suggestion.
Regards.
Satish.

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful image. Great pose, bg and details.