Crested hawk eagle

[Bhargava Srivari]

Shot in bandipur. I think the nicititating membrane is visible.

canon 60D, canon 100-400 L IS USM
f6.3, 1/400sec, ISO 400, EV +0.3, 400mm, cropped, eval metering.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

From this position, one needs higher depth of field. Wish the other eye was in light. Was there any way of moving a bit to the right? Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Bhargava Srivari]

Sabyasachi,

I could have used a narrower aperture, but I was already kind of hanging our through the jeep window and shooting, so wanted a high shutter speed. If you remember thaavara katte, you are on an elevated road and there is water on one side and forest on the other side below. Hence, you really cannot move your jeep in any other direction except straight or reverse.

Thanks

[Mrudul Godbole]

The head turn is nice. Is this a proportional crop? I feel the eagle appears a bit bigger in the frame. Thanks for sharing.

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice pose , seems to be a immature bird.

TFS
Roopak