Tawny Eagle

[Prashant Jois]

Hessarghatta Lake 13-11-2011 @ 4:28 pm
Canon 7D with 100-400mm
Aperture-Priority AE
Tv 1/250
Av 9
Evaluative metering
EC +2/3
ISO 400
Fl 320mm
Shot horizontally and cropped vertically. Thanks for viewing and please do pass on your C&C.

[Himadri Roy]

looks lovely..i like the eye contact

[Himadri Roy]

a straight face towards the camera would have been magnificent

[Mrudul Godbole]

Lovely eye contact. The catch light looks nice. Wish it was closer to get a full frame. Thanks for sharing

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nice image. The lighting is from the side so if you were more to the left or the bird were looking straight down the lens barrel, then its right eye ie. the one towards our left would have been in shade. So I am fine with eye contact with only one eye which is in light.

If you were to crop, then why click at 320mm? With these birds, when other photographers are not around, it is best to slowly move closer a feet or so at a time to make it comfortable. You can then move closer and get nice closeups without cropping.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi