Big catch - Record image

[Mrudul Godbole]

This was photographed on the way back from kabini. It was on the opposite side of the pond and so quite far away. It is cropped around 20%.

Canon 50D, Canon EF 400mm f2.8 L IS USM, EF 2xII TC, ISO 400, f8, 1/1000, tripod.

Comments and critiques welcome..

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nice catch. Looks like a frog. The eye contact is nice. The bird was very far off. I remember watching it through my 70-200 f2.8 L IS II USM lens just to view the action. So the longer focal length helped here. :) With your 1.6 factor camera, the effective focal length was 800*1.6=1280mm.

In the days of using slide films, this focal length was a dream.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Sucheth Lingachar]

Beautiful Image Mrudul.... Eye contact has come out well along with the Catch.... TFS

[Hymakar Valluru]

Nice Catch, Beautiful Frame and good eye contact....

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice freeze. Good eye contact and timing. Great Egret with Big catch...how about excluding the hint of vegetation at the top ?

TFS
Roopak

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

That would be quite a satisfying meal :). Nice shot. Love the exposure of the whites here. Agree with Roopak's crop suggestion.
TFS

[Atul Sinai]

beautiful image, you got the right moment. I remember you telling me about this. Thanks for sharing.

[Manasi Chaphalkar]

Beautiful image..eye contact and catch looks perfect..agree with Roopak about cropping of vegetation ..

Regards
Manasi

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Nice image Mrudul. The shades of grey and green on the water surface looks nice. Ofcourse the frog in the Egret's mouth is also a highlight in this image.

Thanks for sharing.