Rose Ringed Parakeet Pair

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Shot from my kitchen window (Mumbai)
A common parakeet also seen in city gardens and groves. Colouration is similar to the Alexandrine (large Indian ) Parakeet, but is distinguished by the much smaller size and absence of the maroon shoulder patch. Females lack the collar band that is seen in the males.
Camera Model Name Canon PowerShot SX10 IS
Shooting Mode Manual
Tv (Shutter Speed) 1/100
Av (Aperture Value) 8.0 (Is this too much? I used it to get both in focus...)
ISO Speed 200
Cropped.
It seems too soft to me. Don't know why.
Thanks for looking, C&C welcome.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Abhishek,
Good one. Great view. The focus seems to be on the bird in the background. You can seen the tree leaves also better focussed there, than the leaves or the bird in the front. Since you used f8, the front bird is covered a little bit as well.

Try to support your camera when you are clicking. That will help in increasing the sharpness.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Sagar Patil]

Nice shot that too from kitchen.
You can use Expo stop as (-) 0.3. It will help to avoid overexposing at some places. Like here on head.

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice composition. The yellow flowers add to the image. Thinking if a vertical composition would have worked.

Keep posting..

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Thanks for the comments and suggestions everyone.
Sabyasachi : I did rest the camera (partly) on the window ledge. That's why I don't know what caused the softness...
Sagar : I'm not sure, but I think Exp. comp. was somewhere between -1 and -2... I photographed this in manual mode, in this mode you cant control Exp. Comp. (at least not in my camera)
Mrudul : Sorry, no vertical, not of this one...:-(

[AB Apana]

Abhishek,

Your shutter speed of 1/100 is too slow for these active birds. But it is still a nice image.

Apana

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Thanks Apana,
The light was tricky here, in fact it started raining a few minutes later. Av mode was giving me terribly overexposed images (somehow I forgot about changing exp. comp. :()
So I tried getting the correct exposure in manual mode. I do have some images with higher Tv, but they don't have the kind of compo and poses this one has.
One more thing, I find that graininess is higher when in Manual mode, even at sufficiently low ISOs. Any reason?