Little heron - Bharatpur

[Kaustuv Chatterjee]

Little heron also known as the Striated heron, mangrove heron or green backed heron.They sometimes use bait, dropping a feather or leaf carefully on the water surface and picking fish that come to investigate.

Shot with the Nikon D90, Nikkor 300mm F4 +TC14E, at 420mm, ISO 250, 1/200s - F/9, -0.3EV

[Roopak Gangadharan]

super pose, good eye contact and details.nice capture

TFS
Roopak

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice alert pose. Good eye contact. Is the AF point locked on the leaves on the left? Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I agree with the previous comments. I like the looks. The sharpening artifacts are visible, so the sharpening needs to be reduced a bit. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Kaustuv Chatterjee]

Thanks all. The AF pt was on the head of the bird. Yes have sharpened it a bit, and also blurred the bg a bit. This is almost a full frame shot and the image was quite sharp to start with, perhaps that's why its looking a tad over sharpened.