Northern Shoveler

[Amit Kalele]

HI All,

Posting a NS male. Taken few days back at Pune. Canon 7D with 300/f4 IS + 1.4x tc @ f7.1 iso 400, -1/3 ev. Cropped from all sides. Cloned few bright spots in BG and ran it through neat image. C&C are most welcome.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Amit,
This looks nice. Flash?

The eye contact looks good. So is the water on the beak. There are some repeat patterns in the background. I don't find much of details in the whites. With the 7D you could have increased the ISO to 800. Am surprised that you have to use neat image even at ISO 400. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Mrudul Godbole]

The composition and the low angle is nice. I would have liked a bit more space on right and bottom. The water droplets on the beak are nice. Thanks for sharing.

[Amit Kalele]

HI Sabyasachi and Mrudul,

Thanks for looking and your comments. No flash was used here. Yeah NI was not required but it also got processed while doing some other image, so I mentioned. Yes it also took away some details and whites are over.

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Lovely image Amit, the colors have come out really well. Recently I photographed this bird at Ranthambhore from a distance, but looking at your image i don't I should post mine:)

Agree with Sabyasachi loss of details in whites

tfs.

[V S Sankar]

Nice clean sharp image.I like the reflection as well.Good job

[Bibhav Behera]

The image looks nice. I like the contrasty look of the image. Agree about the detailless whites. Thanks for sharing.