Serpent eagle

[Sathya Vagale]

Camera body : Nikon D-90, Lens : 500mm/f4
ISO-1000, speed 1/400 sec.
Focal Length : 500mm, Max. Aperture : 4
Distance 29.9m , handheld. no PP done except cropping

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Nice portrait, a narrow aperture like f7.1 would have bought out more details. Also a vertical crop may look good.
tfs

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Is this a large crop? Reducing the contrast and opening up the blacks a bit will strengthen the image. Wish the light was falling on its face. I agree with Praveen that a vertical composition will look good as this is a tall bird. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Mrudul Godbole]

The eye contact is nice. Agree with the above comments. How big crop is this? Did you try any vertical composition? Thanks for sharing.

[Bhargava Srivari]

Agree about a vertical...also, as this bird is mostly stationary and doesn't hop around like other tiny birds, a lower ISO like 640 would have sufficed..

tfs