Whats red and yellow and green all over? --A Coppersmith Barbet

[Shyamala Kumar]

Nikon 3200+70-300mm fl300mm iso200 f5.6 1/400s Khanapur forest Nov 2013

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice freeze. Good eye contact and details.Like the colours here, the figs add to the image....placing the subject more to the right of the frame wud have enhanced the compo and also removed the OOF leaves from the frame. did u try a vertical compo here?

TFS
Roopak

[Shyamala Kumar]

Thank you Roopak for the suggestions.Earlier I had tried composing the picture on the same lines but somehow I felt this looked more interesting (I may be wrong).

[Mrudul Godbole]

Lovely colours and eye contact. Good details. Agree with Roopak about the off-centered composition. Nicely captured. Thanks for sharing.

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice. The natural colour of figs testifies to the colour of this beautiful bird you have captured.

Banyan and peepal trees are Nature's great creation. It came to my mind because about one week back I was wandering
in a village and sitting near a banyan tree it was amazing to see the no of species visiting the tree for figs, insects, tender leaves, shade. Tree-pie (common), oriole, bulbul, drongo, male koel and your barbet and so on.
Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Shyamala Kumar]

Saktipadaji you are right about the popularity of this tree among the avian denizens.This particular bird is so tiny and so effectively camouflaged that it was almost indistinguishable from the leaves.I was only able to spot it because of its red patch.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I agree with the previous comments. I feel f8 would have been good here as that would have given you greater depth of field to cover the bird and the figs. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Shyamala Kumar]

Thanks Sabyasachi.I will certainly keep the depth of field angle in mind on my next outing

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Unfortunately, the Nikon D3200 lacks a Depth of field preview button which even the entry level canon cameras have. You can find it in your canon camera. When you press the depth of field preview button, it shows the area under focus. Nevertheless, you can take a few images at f8/f9 to see in reality how much more areas are in focus.