Purple-rumped Sunbird (Male)

[Subramanya Madhyastha]

This was photographed at Agara, near Thathaguni estate in July 2012
Canon EOS 7D, Canon EF 300mm f/4.0 L IS USM Lens + Canon EF 1.4 X iii Extender
mounted on manfrotto 055xprob Tripod Legs & manfrotto 496RC2 Ballhead

Shooting mode: Aperture Priority
Shutter Speed: 1/400
Aperture value: 8.0
Exposure Compensation: -1/3
ISO : 400
Focal length: 420 mm
Cropped for composition, A round of noise reduction done using Neat image

[Prasad Dingankar]

Nice Eye contact & composition, Opening the blacks a bit would have been even better.

[Roopak Gangadharan]

nice eye contact and bg. difficult bird to get the exposure right.

TFS
Roopak

[Mrudul Godbole]

Lovely eye contact. Nice clean background. Placing the bird a bit more to the right with more space on the left would be good. Agree about the blacks. Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I agree with the previous comments. The eye contact is nice. The blacks have lost details. You may check if it is so in the original capture or due to the post processing. How much of crop is this? Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi