Jungle Myna

[Arpan Saha]

English Name - Jungle Myna
Bengali Name - Jongli Salik
Scientific Name - Acridotheres fuscus
Size - 23 cm
[Fujifilm S4000]
Location - Mahadipur, Malda, W.B.
Shot Taken on - Nov, 12

[Arpan Saha]

iso 400, f5.6 aperture priority...uncropped...

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice close-up. Nice eye contact. Enjoying ripe papaya .To retain this action, the tail portion has been left out, I think. Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Nice action of the bird enjoying the fruit. The image seems a bit soft and some details seem to be lost. Thanks for sharing.

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice moment Arpan. you seem to be over sharpening your images.

TFS
Roopak

[Arpan Saha]

thnx for the reviews...ya a bit of sharpening is used...i guess the too much noise is due to the pic was a bit dark and brightness has been increased...

[Sabyasachi Patra]

You are using noise reduction. So all the details are lost. They you are doing over sharpening which results in creation of artifacts which some mistake for sharpness.

I am surprised to hear that the image is not cropped. These days the exposure meter of the cameras are so good that if you don't crop, then the background will not be underexposed by a great deal as in this case. The underexposed portions will hold very less details. Did you use digital zoom?

In this image the tail has been cutoff. In birds, since there is hardly any sharp joint visible except the knee joint, it becomes difficult to get a pleasing composition if you cut off a part of the bird. So a wider composition here would have been better.

If you can share the image straight out of the camera without cropping or doing any processing, then we can give suggestions.

[Arpan Saha]

thnx for ur generous reviews...posting the original image...it wasn't taken from a high end camera, just a advanced ps...i guess my original image didn't had much details too...but yes, did poor work on pp...

waiting for ur valuable suggestions...