Orange Headed Ground Thrush

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Shot this at Wild Woods Spa, Toodihalli

Camera - Canon EOS 1D Mark IV, 500mm

Av 7.1
Tv 1/800
ISO 640
EC - 0.3 step
Focal length 500mm
Cropped
Monopod
Date and Time : 30th Dec'11 @ 2:22pm

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Nice image. Seems as if Wild Woods spa is a birders paradise. Seen a lot of images from you of Wild Woods spa. The leaves in the foreground are a tad too bright though.

[Suraj Sreedhar]

Lovely image and colour of the bird.Looks like a 3D image.
TFS

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Thanks Murugan and Suraj for the comments.

Murugan the Wild Woods Spa & Resort is definitely a heaven for birds, it is 22 acre property surrounded by river stream. We don't have to go out for birding most birds are seen within the 22 acres, In 2 days spotted over 40 species of birds and photographed about 15-20. While shooting this Orange Headed Ground Thrush, the light was quite harsh.

[Bhargava Srivari]

Nice image. The colors look good. May be, I would have liked a little more space behind the bird (to the right side).

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[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Nice low angle. One of my favourite birds. Am wondering whether the image is slightly over-sharpened (?)
TFS

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Good to know that you had a nice time. Some more space at the right would be better. A wider composition with less space at the bottom and more at the top would strengthen the composition. With your new Mark IV, it seems you are still struggling with details and sharpening. You need to check the file at 100% magnification and then sharpen.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Like the low angle and eye contact here.

TFS
Roopak