indian pitta nesting in Gujarat

indian pitta nesting in gujarat.

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File: DSC_0504.NEF
Date: 2009/07/20 09:42:58.9
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Image Quality: Compressed RAW (12-bit)
Image Size: L (3008 x 2000)
Image Comment: PHOTOGRAPH BY ADITYA ROY
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Device: Nikon D40
Lens: 70-300mm F/4-5.6G
Focal Length: 300mm
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AF-Area Mode: Dynamic
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Aperture: F/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/320s
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Metering Mode: Center-Weighted
Sensitivity: Auto (ISO 1600)
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Color Mode: Mode IIIa (sRGB)
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Sharpening: Medium high
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Indian Pitta:
Local Names: navrang (hindi, gujarati), shumcha (bengal), polanki pitta (telugu), Arumani kuruvi (tamil), kavi (Malayalam), avichchiya (sinhala), dao bui yegashi (cachari)

Size: Mayna +
Field characters: a gaudy sub-tailed thrush like bird, green blue fulvous black and white, with crimson abdomen under tail.In flight a round white spot near tip of wing conspicuous. Sexes alike. Singly, on ground in undergrowth in scrub jungle.

Good Composition. Would like to see a bit more sharpness and opening of the shadows...

Lovely bird. An off-centre composition would have strengthened the image further. There is some noise in the image. If you upload a larger size image, then the software resizes it. So upload only 800*600 size images.

Thanks for the detailed information. Keep posting..

Hi Aditya,

The image is not sharp, is it a large crop? Agree about the shadows.

Apana

Aditya,
I like the information and the low angle of the shot. Scientific name: Pitta brachyura

Which software do you use? Photoshop?

I would like to know how you are resizing your images.

The ISO 1600 has given you some noise. I would open up the shadows, so that the eye portion is prominent. I would have left some more space at the bottom, so that the feet was not cut. I would tone down the bright spot behind the bird. A bit more sharpening would be good.

Are you saving again and again on the same jpeg? That causes loss in quality.

Look forward to other shots of this species.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

thanks a lot all of you for you precious comments.