Plum Headed Parakeet Female

[Atul Sinai]

Hi,

Shot this one in Pune. It was great watching this parakeet feed itself. It was using its leg as we use our hand, removing the grains with one leg and putting it into its mouth. I had positioned myself before the bird arrived. Though it didn't perch where I expected it to but did get some decent shots from my position. Had to readjust a bit to get it clear and avoid the tall grass.

Please critique this image.

Canon 600D. 400mm f5.6
Manual Exposure
Manual Focus
Manual metering
Shutter Speed 1/400
Aperture 7.1
ISO 200
Focal Length 400mm
Cropped by 30%
Tripod Support

Regards,
Atul

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Are you using picturestyles?

I think a loose crop would have been better with slightly more space at right to get the entire stalk. These are good subjects and you can keep on trying to get an environmental image without crop.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice Action Photograph.Its a Female Plum-Headed Parakeet. Well Composed.Natural Colour,Habitat well documented.Not very common to find in this part.Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild.

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Correction:From my posting at 11.41 P.M on 15.10.2011,KINDLY DELETE : "(also called Blossom-Headed Parakeet).It has a Beautiful Bengali name:FULTUSI".All other observations remain Unchanged.SaktiWild

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice habitat displayed. Agree less space on the left and more on the right would be good. Nice colours and light. Thanks for sharing.

[Atul Sinai]

Thanks! would readjust the crop.

Sabyasachi, I use standard picture style. Is there any thing in the image that you find inappropriate?

Regards,
Atul

[Bhargava Srivari]

Good that you got the bird sharp. The habitat all around is nice. Good job. Agree with comments made.

tfs

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice display of the birds feeding habit

TFS
Roopak