Indian Roller

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Shot this roller at Hasserghatta last month, infact shot plently of Rollers:) would like to share all of them, it should be good learning for me...

Canon 40D, 100-400mm L IS USM, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/320

[Mrudul Godbole]

Hi Praveen,

Nice perch. I liked the composition and the eye contact. Nice clear background. I have increased the fill light a bit and some sharpness. Let me know what you think. Do share your other photographs.

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Thanks Mrudul, your image is looking better.
To increase the sharpness in LR I use & increase "Clarity" even upto 100 the max, i hope that is the correct option or is there anything else that I need to do

[Anuradha Nautiyal]

Hi Praveen,

Very nice picture .. loved the way it has been composed.. the background is good and the eye contact and the colours have come out very well.. the details near the neck look really cool

TFS
Anu

[Bibhav Behera]

I personally like the original version better. The details are nice. The composition looks good. You had shutterspeed to spare and thus more DOF would have been nice.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I find Praveen's version a bit dark. I would like to add little bit more contrast to the repost. By making it brighter the colours appear vibrant. One of our members was earlier wishing for a Sari with such colours. :D

The background is nicely diffused and helps in the image pop up. You can upload all your versions. Normally, we don't get bird/animals posing for us for a long time.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Priya Vinay]

Nice perch, nice colors and a nice photo :)

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

I like the original better, though the repost brings out the eye more clearly. Nice shot, great BG, lovely pose and I like the perch too.

[Nitin Choudhary]

nicely shot... I really want to take a shot of this bird....