Racket tailed Drongo

[Vaishnavi Rajan]

This is a dated photo (almost a year ago) at Valparai. Late evening at very low light near the Kannimara teak tree.

Camera : 400D
Lens: Canon 100-400
Apreture: F5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/100
ISO : 800
Support: Tripod

Pls critique and advice

Vaishnavi

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Lovely text book image of Greater Racket-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus). Nice pose and eye contact. I like the well defined backward curving crest in the forehead very much.
Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice head turn and eye contact. Its good you could get the tail in full. Just a bit less space on the right and more on the left would be good. Is this a crop? Some more critical sharpness would have enhanced the image further. There seems to be some noise in the background. Was any sharpening done? Thanks for sharing.

[Vaishnavi Rajan]

Thanks for the advice(s)

Will keep the tips on composition in mind. Yes, tried a very little sharpening, which probably caused the noise. No, I don't remember cropping.

thanks again

Vaishnavi

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Vaisnavi,
Kannimara teak is in parambikulam. Is there one in valparai?

Did you do some blurring of the highlights? I agree with the previous comments.

Sabyasachi

[Rajan Kanagasabai]

You are right Sabyasachi, this was at Parambikulam. She's probably mixed up between both for we moved to Parambikulam, after a few days stay at Stanmore bungalow in Valparai.

regards
Rajan