Rufous Tree Pie at Ranthambore

[Ashok Sorout]

These birds are so familier with humans in Ranthambore that they use to come closure sometimes at your vehicle. Similar is the case here.

Taken using Semi Auto Mode (AV), f5.6, 1/500s, ISO 1600, 260 mm, Handheld, at 8:30 AM in cloudy conditions. Little cropping and sharpening done.

[Ashok Sorout]

I know one thing that some details are missing here on white part of the image, don't know how to fix it during the shot or post processing.

[Bhargava Srivari]

Ashok

This image is good- in fact, very good:) The details look fine..getting good details on whites is never easy. The trick is to usually expose for the whites and recover the rest during PP but that works only when whites form a significant portion of the image. In cases like this, playing with curves (selecting only the white patch) will be helpful if you are using photoshop.

Lesser space on the right will be better..also a lower ISO would have sufficed.

Tfs

[Sabyasachi Patra]

In digital photography, the burnt highlights can't be recovered. So the shooting technique has to be tuned accordingly.

Which camera are you using?

If you have time, look at the image in the LCD and you check if there are blinking highlights. That will indicate that the white areas have become burnt. If that is the case, then you need to dial in a negative exposure compensation.

When the subject is close, the depth of field is less. The white feathers are on the back and out of the zone of acceptable sharpness. Using a narrow aperture like f8 etc would have given you higher depth of field. f8 is one stop narrow than the f5.6 aperture that you have used here. So your shutter speed would have come down to 1/250.

Remember that our best images need very little post processing. So first try to fine tune your photographing technique. You guys are lucky that you are photographing in the digital age. While shooting slides, we had no control over post processing and the dynamic range was less as well.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice details and eye contact. You could have tried a vertical composition here. The background is nice and clean. Agree with the above comments. Thanks for sharing.