Spotted Dove

[Mrudul Godbole]

Photographed in Bandipur early in the morning safari. Forgot to change the ISO from the previous evening safari :(.

Canon 50D, 100-400mm L IS USM, ISO 800, f6.3, 1/500, hand held

Comment and Critiques welcome..

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Beautiful composition Mrudul, the twigs on top frame the dove nicely. The eye contact is nice. I think iso is ok else the shutter speed would have been quite low
tfs

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nice image. I agree with Praveen that the top branches frame the image nicely. It would have been great if the dove was in a side on position. The background is more or less fine except for the diagonal branch passing below the tail. Not much of a distraction, however, without it the image would have been great. However, there is nothing one can do except for using a wider aperture.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Nice shot. I dont mind the high ISO. The pose looks nice. I feel it might look better without the flowers at the left. Absence of the OOF flowers would look good too, but that is not something you could have avoided.
Overall a good shot, TFS.