Lineated barbet

[Sudipto Roy]

Captured this lineated barbet in Indian Botanic Gardens; Howrah, West Bengal on Saturday 15th May. Exif

Shutter speed 1/320 ; f stop 8; exposure compensation -1/3. Camera Canon 450D; lens EF 100-400

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice head turn and eye contact. I liked the open beak. I can see a bit of over exposure on the left bottom (not sure viewing from a different computer), you can try to recover the details. The colours are nice. Thanks for sharing.

[Sudipto Roy]

You are right about the left bottom being over exposed. Actually I didn't really care about that as I was looking more at the bird than the lower bottom corner !!! :-)

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Hi Sudipto,
Beautiful bird. Is this a big crop? What was the ISO? A higher shutter speed would have been better in terms of sharpness. Thanks for sharing. Look forward to more.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Sudipto Roy]

Yes it is about 50 per cent crop. ISO was 400. Thanks for your comments.

[Mrudul Godbole]

You are right about the left bottom being over exposed. Actually I didn't really care about that as I was looking more at the bird than the lower bottom corner !!! :-)

Yes the left bottom doesn't distract much, just thought of letting you know.

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Lovely bird & nice head turn
tfs

[Bibhav Behera]

A nice bird. I agree about the image looking a bit soft due to the crop.

[AB Apana]

Agree with the remarks, thanks for sharing!

Apana

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Lovely bird. One of my favourites :). I agree the quality has gone down due to the crop. Agree about the over exposed lower left corner. It's tough to get a correctly exposed scene with these birds. I have tried photographing them several times, but almost all the shots have overexposed bits. :-P