Bronze Winged Jacana

[Arijit Banerjee]

The very harsh mid-day sun was not helping. The nonchalance of the Bird was tempting.

A Bronze Winged Jacana, Santragachi Lake, Howrah West Bengal, 27 Nov 2011.

Pentax K5, Pentax DA* 300mm F4 ED IF SDM, Pentax F 1.7AF adapter, 1/400 sec f9, ISO 320, -0.7 EV spot metered. Crpped for composition just a bit.

processed for levels and highlight correction and a small amount of sharpening.

[Mrudul Godbole]

Lovely colours. The eye contact is nice. Agree about the harsh light. Removing the hint of legs at the bottom would be good. Thanks for sharing.

[Bhargava Srivari]

Nicely exposed. The colors look rich. Agree about cropping off the hint of the legs. By the way, good to see you post again :)

Cheers

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nice one. Good to know that this fellow approached close. Since this was close, a vertical portrait of the head would have been good too. The glint in the eye looks good.

This reminded me of one such closeups I had in 2004 when I had first shifted to digital. Unfortunately, the swampy area behind my house in bhubaneswar has lost its sheen due to dumping of debris from the residential building constructions.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi