Creasted Serpent Eagle

[Sucheth Lingachar]

Photographed at Bandipur Tiger Reserve,from my Archive(2011)

Nikon D3100,
Nikkor 55 - 300 VR
F8,1/640s,ISO 200,300mm

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice eye contact. Seems the light was harsh. Was the white balanced changed? Removing the slight hint of legs at the bottom would be good. Did you try a vertical composition? Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

The image is darkened and saturated resulting in the sky looking like night. Reducing the saturation will be good. The yellow is also much saturated and looks like that of the Egyptian vulture.

The only reason for pointing out is that I find a trend among many photographers in India to darken/blacken the background so that the distractions become dark and lose details. If we don't keep the colours natural, then people who are not fortunate to see these majestic creatures in the wild will never know what is the right colour.

A vertical image with the legs would have been nice. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Nice image Sucheth, agree a vertical image to include the bird in full would have enhanced this image. Thanks for sharing.

[Sucheth Lingachar]

Thank you all for your valuable comments..

Sabyasachi Patra: I do agree with your comments, i always try to keep natural colors in my image. in this image i dont know little bit over done i think. pp what i have done is level adjustment, little bit contrast adjustment and shadow highlighting.. i think shadow highlighting might have gone wrong.

Thanking you,
Sucheth S L