Barn Swallow/Joida

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Shot this from a distance in Joida near Ganeshgudi in Dec'10. Very rarely we find these swallow on a natural perch, till date I have got them only on wires:(. The noise in bg is due to heavy crop i guess.

Camera Model Canon EOS 7D, 500mm
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/200
Av( Aperture Value ) 8
ISO 400
Focal length 500mm
Cropped
Monopod

[Bhargava Srivari]

It feels good to see this bird on a natural perch:)

I have no clue how you managed the rainbow colours in the BG sir! Has that been achieved naturally or is it from PP? :)

tfs

[Sabyasachi Patra]

These are small birds. So one needs to be really close to get a decent size in the frame. The sharpening artifacts are visible. Slight head turn towards you would have been great as well. I am sure you will get one in a natural perch soon.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice clean background. Getting them close is difficult. Agree about the head turn. Thanks for sharing.

[Bibhav Behera]

The background looks nice. however the details seem smudged perhaps due to the crop. Agree that a head turn would have been nice. Thanks for sharing.

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Bhargava the bg is natural, i have not made any alternations during PP

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Very nice Bg.wish this was closer.
TFS
Roopak