Sarus Crane

[Mital Patel]

Please do critique on the image.

Name : Sarus Crane
Scientific Name : Grus antigone
Location : Thol Bird Sanctuary ( Mehsana, Gujarat, INDIA)
Photograph Date : 12th April 2009

Equipment : Nikon D300, Nikkor 80-400D ED VR f4.5/5.6
Exposure : 1/2000 sec at f/8.0
ISO : 400

[Rahul Parekh]

excellent...showing the different mind and one soul...Made of each other... :)

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Mital,
The image is sharp. You have got good depth of field. Is this a cropped image? I would have loved more space on top as there is very little separation between their heads and the top of the frame.

I would like a bit more brightness. A lower angle if possible would have further strengthened the image. Since your shutter speed was already 1/2000, I would have sacrificed some speed for some depth of field ie. I would have selected an aperture of f11.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Mital Patel]

i like your approach sabyasachi to extend aperture. this is full frame as i was pretty close and on ground under the jeepsy as it was so hot in open :)

now to the part of dof after i shot almost 15 images me and my friend like to move out as they were four in group and in a process for something by their movement so we wish not to disturb them and moved out.

it is sometime happens we shoot and realise that if it would have been shot with large or shallow aperture :)

next time will try to grab some different aperture images so i can choose from various..

like your suggestion

[AB Apana]

I agree with Sabyasachi that a tad more space on the top would have helped. In this image space can be added digitally and the image could be labelled as being digitally altered.

Apana