Oriental honey buzzard

[Kumaraswamy M. G.]

Nikon D80, f6.3 1/200 ISO250, sigma 170-500 apo @400mm

[Kumaraswamy M. G.]

My first post on indiawilds

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Kumar,
Welcome to IndiaWilds! Lovely first post. Please introduce yourself in the Who's who section along with your self-photo so that we can recognise you in the field.

A fine natural history moment. This is how the honey buzzard has got its name. However, I am sure lot of birders would not have witnessed such a moment. The bees add to the image.

Is this a full frame image? If crop how big a crop is it? Why did you use ISO 250?

The intermediate ISOs like ISO 160, 250, 320 etc are extrapolated by software. So it is better to avoid those ISOs. Better to use either ISO 100, 200, 400, 800 etc instead of the intermediate ISOs.

I am reposting your image. I increased the brightness, added some fill light, recovered some highlights and worked on the tone curve to pull up the shadows.

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Mrudul Godbole]

Welcome to IndiaWilds..!!!

Rare action captured. Lovely wing spread. The bees buzzing around add to the composition. Wish the twig in the foreground was not present. The repost has enhanced the image further.

Look forward to more..

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Great action captured Kumar! where did you shot this? This is a rare shot, would like to see more in this series, thanks

[Bibhav Behera]

Hi Kumaraswamy...
Welcome to indiawilds..
lovely shot... I think Aditya had posted a similar shot. was this on the same trip? Ranthambore was it?