Osprey

[Arpan Saha]

English Name - Osprey
Scientific Name - Pandion haliaetus
Size - 50–66 cm
[Nikon D7000 + 300 f4]
Location - Met-talar Char, Purbasthali, W.B.
Shot Taken on - 13th Jan, 14

1/1250 sec; f/8; ISO 400
cropped, basic photoshop

[N.B. - Ruddy Shelduck in background...]

[Subhash Shrivastava]

Hi Arpan;
Great shot. beautiful bird, and beautiful composition. What's it's Indian / Bengali name?

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Superb action-packed image. Lovely composition. Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Nice angle, and the catch is a big plus. I guess you needed a slightly higher shutter speed for a better freeze. Have you run noise reduction on this image?

TFS

[Arpan Saha]

thanks for the reviews;

Subhash jee - thanks, I think the Bengali name is - Machhmarol; though not sure;

Abhishek jee - I was shooting ruddy shelducks when i spotted it; couldn't change the settings in that time, otherwise I would had used f 5.6... as mentioned, the image is cropped, sharpened and low intensity noise reduction was used...

[Debasis Bose]

Lovely shot and wonderful timing. Thanks for sharing

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Superb! We don't often get to see them so close and especially at ground level.

[Mrudul Godbole]

Lovely moment freezed. Nice low angle and upward wing stroke. Wish there were more details. Thanks for sharing.

[Rajan Kanagasabai]

Lovely picture and nice composition. With the dark's recovered and a little more details (maybe with a higher SS), this would be simply awesome. The low angle and the fierce eyes add to the great picture.

Thanks for sharing

Rajan

[Arpan Saha]

thanks for the reviews...

[Roopak Gangadharan]

very nice, well timed action packed. Agree a higher SS wud been super here.
TFS
Roopak

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Ahhh .... What a scene! Not often we get to watch this. That is itself a blessing.

I think the focus didn't lock properly on the bird. Else the image would have been superb. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi