Orange headed ground thrush

[Pralay Lahiry]

Shot at CKBS, Calcutta.
Camera D90, lens Sigma 150-500.
Exif: f/6.3 ; 1/50 ; ISO 400 ; Spot metering ; Tripod support

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Pralay,
1/50 shutter speed is not adequate to arrest subject motion, especially with small birds which are more agile. How much of a crop is this?

Reducing the saturation will strengthen the image. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Pralay Lahiry]

Thanks for the critic Sabyasachi.
The light was pretty bad in the early morning. I did not want to increase the ISO beyond 400 and hence had to reduce shutter speed. Yes this bird is quite agile and restless but for some reason it sat still for a few minutes allowing me a few shots.
This is approximately 70 % the size of the original image. I shot from a distance of about 15-20 feet.

Regards
Pralay

[Bhargava Srivari]

Cute bird. Agree with Sabyasachi. Wish the angle from which you were shooting was less steeper.

tfs

[Mrudul Godbole]

Cute bird. The composition is nice. It is good you were using tripod, else at 1/50 it would have been difficult. You can try to set up hide and wait, that will help to get closer to birds. Thanks for sharing.