Blackbird

[Atul Dhamankar]

Gir NP
Nov. 2011

F4.5
1/500
ISO 500
Handheld

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice rare image.The eye ring is so beautiful.Appears to be Male Common Blackbird(Turdus merula nigropileus).Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice sighting. The head turn and the eye contact is nice. Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Eye contact is good. It appears some cloning work on the twigs have been done.

In nature photography, especially for editorial applications cloning/blurring/despeckling is not allowed. Ofcourse, in Indian magazines the editors don't often know. Nor do they have time to check the raw files.

Lowering the colour temperature will also be better.

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Quite a rare sighting. I havent seen this bird yet nor have I known anyone who's clicked this bird. Thanks for sharing.

[Suranjan Mukherjee]

Nice click Atulji. Tack sharp as usual. But what camera and Lens used ?

[Atul Dhamankar]

No cloning done anywhere in the image. How you can tell this?