Brahmini Kite

Shot today on the way back to Bangalore from Bandipur...

Canon 350D
Canon 28-135mm IS Lens
Exp 1/1250
F5.6
ISO 400

Let me know what you feel about the image...
10% crop for compostion...

Nice shot. The open beak and the face overall look eye catching to me. Nice wing details also. The Kite must have been so close to you. Maybe a slight increase in contrast would make it look better? (Just a suggestion, I'm no expert at PP).

Hi Abhishek,
Contrast increasing would reduce the details available in the wings as the BG is bright. The highlights would blow out I feel. I tried it, it didnt look all that good. It would be great if you could post a version which would improve the current one... Thanks :)

Bibhav, you could try increasing the saturation a bit and see if it works. Perhaps a tad more sharpening as well.

Apana

Hi Bibhav,

Thats a nice photograph. Would agree with Apana about a bit of sharpening. Nice composition.

Bibhav,
Nice wing span. It is great that you have got it at 135mm. This reminds me of Robert Kapa's line "if your images are not good enough, then you are not close enough".

The amount of satisfaction that I got from you clicking this at 135 mm is huge.

The light was harsh. So the eyes are dark.

You can do a little bit more tweaking to the raw. Good that you clicked it in Raw and are able to extract details.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

thats nice shot... would love more saturation and contrast...

thanks all, will process again and post...