Parakeet

[Mrudul Godbole]

Photographed in Bharatpur. Liked the way it has one leg outside on the bark.

Canon 50D, 100-400mm L IS USM, ISO 400, f7.1, 1/125, full frame, hand held

Comments and critiques welcome..

[Atul Sinai]

Very well composed. One leg out enhances the image. Back of the head seems to be blown off slightly, some loss of the details in that area. TFS

[Mrudul Godbole]

Back of the head seems to be blown off slightly, some loss of the details in that area. TFS

Hi Atul, I was thinking the same, that the back of the head is highlighted, but in Lightroom you can see it is not overexposed. The back of the head is a slight whitish green in colour. I checked in Lightroom again, and I am attaching the 100% zoom image of the head in Lightroom which I checked for highlights. Not sure if it is the software or the shades of green. Thanks for your minute observation. More inputs on this are welcome..

[Bhargava Srivari]

Nice looking bird. Well composed. A 1/3rd stop lower EC would have done the needful here.

tfs

[Atul Sinai]

Mrudul, you can keep the Alt button pressed and click on the recovery slider. This will give you a clear idea whether the area is blown off or not.

Agree with you regarding back of the head being whitish green.

[Saajan Jogia]

A very cute picture. I agree with atul about the back of the head being washed off, maybe it's because parakeets are very restless so you could've expected a minor shake there. The bark of the tree goes well with green. Sharp eye contact.

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice compo and good eye contact.

TFS
Roopak

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice composition,colour contrast with the perch and eye contact.Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I too had the impression that there may have been some blownout pixels. Viewing at 100% one can see the details. I like the subtle colour variations. The bark has come out very nicely. This reminds me that I haven't converted these images. Let me hunt for these. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Lovely image Mrudul. The single leg out reminds me of buses in chennai where people hang out on the footboard, give a similar impression :). The colors look nice and agree with the comments made on the brightness towards the end of the ring. Thanks for sharing.

[Prasad Dingankar]

Your skills of capturing birds in full frame is just awesome.... Thanks for sharing

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Lovely image Mrudul. The single leg out reminds me of buses in chennai where people hang out on the footboard, give a similar impression :).

This one beats all. I just couldn't stop myself from laughing. Everyday while driving to office I used to see a few hanging from the footboards of the bus and I used to be worried that someone will fall down. You just reminded me about that.

One day I was driving National Geographic photographer Ed Kashi and he immediately pulled his camera to click this scene. He said he could never imaging such a thing to happen. :)