Indian Roller.

[Satishchandra Ranadive]

Indian Roller from Kerala.Alleppey.
Canon450D.f:11,1/250.ISO800.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

The eye contact is good. I am not sure why the image is not sharp. Were you handholding?

Can you please let us know how you convert your images? Which software do you use? Do you shoot in RAW or jpeg? How do you insert your name date etc on the image?

In this image, the yellow channel has got blown and lost details. There are two white patches in the background and they distract a bit. Composition wise more space in the right ie. in the direction the bird is looking, would strengthen the image.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Satishchandra Ranadive]

Sir,
Generally I shoot in jpeg.For editting,cropping ,for inserting the text I use software provided by Canon along with camera.I do not use tripod while shooting.it makes me unconfortable,hence I shoot with handheld camera.
Besides that I do minimum editing.
I always notedown suggestion given by you as well by my friends.
Thanks for the suggestion.
With Regards.
Satish Ranadive.

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Agree with Sabyasachi. Try tweaking the white balance here. What lens were you using? I don't think f11 was needed here.
TFS.

[Mrudul Godbole]

The perch and eye contact is nice. Using tripod is good to avoid any shake, which affects the sharpness. You can check the below thread for hand holding techniques and how to get images more sharp - http://www.indiawilds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=268

Using DPP (canon software) is good for post processing, I would also recommend Lightroom (Adobe). It is good that you do minimal post processing, but it is necessary to do it the right way to get the best in the image. It is better to photograph in RAW mode, since all the details are retained in the image. You can also make your copyright mark a bit smaller and place it on the right or left of the image, so it wont distract.

Agree with Abhishek about the aperture, f7.1 would have been ideal in this case. Any particular reason for using f11? Thanks for sharing.

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Agree with comments, I am sure you will learn a lot here. So did I:001_smile:
tfs