Blue Tailed Bee Eater

[Mrudul Godbole]

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

Comments and Critiques welcome..

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Lovely image Mrudul, good to see the bee eater in action. The details, colors, eye contact and bg have come out well. The OOF twig on the left can be cropped or a vertical comp may even look better.
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[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Nicely composed. The black stripe is well-exposed. Brighter light would have made for a better catchlight in the eye. Nice to see it with a catch. Agree about the OOF branch on the left. Do you have verticals?
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[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice you got it with a catch.Like the compo and details .Agree on the oof stick at the left.

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Roopak

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Good catch. I agree that cropping slightly from the left to remove the hint of the out of focus twig would have been even better.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Atul Sinai]

Lovely image Mrudul. Agree with the comments made. Loved the catch. Were you able to find out the ID of the catch when you zoomed in?

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Regards,
Atul

[Mrudul Godbole]

LThe OOF twig on the left can be cropped or a vertical comp may even look better.
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Praveen, I too wanted to crop it, but with a proportional crop, the space at the bottom was getting reduced so thought of minimising it as much as possible. I didn't try a vertical as I was waiting for it to take off so I could get a flight image.

Thanks all for the comments.

[Bhargava Srivari]

Agree with Praveen. You got the bird nice and sharp. The colors look good. Where was this shot?

By the way, is it not okay to crop slightly unproportionally in cases where you have to sacrifice the composition?

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[Dr. Kalpamoi Kakati]

Nice sharp image.Images look much better with this lens ,when clicked by you :).I agree that it is always good to go for a proportionate crop.Thanks for sharing.