"the dreadful hunter"

Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/400
Av( Aperture Value ) 8.0
Metering Mode Spot Metering
Exposure Compensation -2/3
ISO Speed 640
HANDHELD.
LOCATION :THOL BIRD SANCTUARY,MEHSANA ,GUJARAT,INDIA
DATE 4TH FEBRUARY 2010.

I MADE THIS IMAGE ON 4TH FEBRURY 2010.WITH MY CANON450D AND SIGMA170-500.I HAD A GOOD TIME WITH THIS FELLOW ON THAT DAY .HE WAS HAPPY TO GIVE SOME NICE POSE FOR ME ..AND THAT WAY I WAS ALSO HAPPY .FIRED MANY CLICKS AND MADE SOME DECENT IMAGES ON THAT DAY OF THIS SPECIES WILL TRY TO SHARE MORE IMAGES OF THE SAME SPECIES IN NEAR FUTURE.
I CROPPED TO COMPOSE THIS .I MADE MANY IMAGES ON THAT DAY .WITH DIFFERENT BACKGROUND THE BACKGROUND IS ORIGINAL .HOWEVER I NEVER DO BACKGROUND BLUR.BUT IN THIS IMAGE I CLONED OUT SOME SMALL TWIGS .BUT STILL NOT HAPPY THAT I DID IT.I ALWAYS WANT TO KEEP MY IMAGES NEAT WITHOUT EDITED (HERE I AM POINTING BACKGROUND BLURR).
I BELIEVE IN HARDWORK .THAT ONE SHOULD WORK MORE TO GET PERFECT BACKGROUND .ONE NEED LOT OF PATIENCE TO ACHEIVE THE DESIRED IMAGE.YOUR VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS AND COMMENTS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME .WOULD LOVE TO LEARN FROM THE MASTERS HERE ON THIS SITE.
I AM SO PLEASED TO BE CONNECTED HERE .
I WILL TRY TO MAINTAIN SOME QULAITY ON THIS SITE .
AND WOULD LOVE TO LEARN A LOT FROM HERE BY THE HONEST AND CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM.
THANK YOU SO MUCH .

(HOWEVER I BELIEVE I AM NOT A MAN OF WORDS .)


"Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain."
Georges Braque

This image looks lovely...the glint in the eye is nice. The composition is also fine, but you may want to try a vertical as well and see how it comes out:)

PS:- It will be great if you can write in normal font- the capital letters are a tad distracting when reading the entire write up:) Hope you won't mind that..

tfs

Nice image. Slightly reducing the colour temperature would also be good. A vertical will also work well.

In internet, using Capital letters is taken as screaming and considered as offensive. So please don't use all capital letters.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

@Bhargava ,
well I wanted some negative space to speak .if i am composing it vertically then it will kill the charm of this image that ,I believe.
@sabyasachibhai yes garee with you on a color temperaure and will try to check it
but i guess the negative space speaks much in this image aint it?
ther wont be a breathing space in the image if i will compose it vertically.
and i didnt know about that "in internet, using Capital letters is taken as screaming and considered as offensive. "
will keep it in my mind .
i am not here to offence anyone and not here to scream .i am here to learn and share .so hope you are getting my point.

Tejas,

Most of our magazines need vertical images. So it is always better to also have a vertical composition with some space at the top.

I am not saying that you are intentionally trying to offend. I guess you were trying to emphasise your point. I was just pointing out that in internet people consider it as offensive. When we communicate face to face, we have the benefit of watching the persons body language as a major part of communication is non-verbal communication.

In internet, we neither see each other, nor have the benefit of hearing the tone of a person. And since most of us haven't seen or met each other one can easily misunderstand the intention of the other person. So we need to be careful while writing in the internet.

Also, the @ sign is used a lot in internet. However, the @ sign is primarily to signify the cost or price of a commodity. So better not to use the @ sign infront of the name of a person. Just addressing the name of the person without the @ sign is fine. Lot of senior persons including people in Govt. follow IndiaWilds. So it will be better if you don't use the @ sign while addressing other people.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

Sabyasachibhai ,
Agree with your point of view.
I already wrote I managed to click many different images of "Great Grey Shrike"
and will share more soon .
Whenever i shoot in the wild I always try to manage everything .I mean every possible composition if time and the subject permits.
So my point was only this .
Always try to take advantage of the range of my glass .(sigma170-500 )
I try every possible composition with variable range ,to add beauty to the image .
Thank you so much for your valuable suggestion and comments .
I really appreciate that.
I will try to upload on vertical images from now on.

Nice clean Bg and good details on the bird.
TFS
Roopak

Nice shot. The catch light in the eye looks good. Nice BG as well. Agree with Sabyasachi on the colour temperature. The horizontal composition looks fine here. You could have also tried to compose vertically at a slightly lower focal length so that the image is not too tight.
TFS, look forward to more.

Very nice shot.Nice perch & eye contact.Clean BG has added to the image.Agree about reducing the colour temperature a bit.Thanks for sharing.Hope to see more of such images from you :).

Regards
Kalpa