Crested Serpent Eagle

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I have photographed this Crested Serpent Eagle in Bandhavgarh National Park.

Canon EOS 40D, Canon EF 400mm f2.8 L IS USM, EF 1.4xII, ISO 400, aperture f5.6, Shutter Speed 1/500 sec. Full frame image.
Look forward to your comments.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Kiran Ghadge]

Awesome shot...it is full frame, you can crop it littlebit more for closeup shot to make it more intresting and showing more details....

[Chitrita Chatterjee]

Wow..
look at eyes... !!! :-)
and the killer beak...!!!

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Great one! Even with a 400mm lens, you may have needed to get very close to the eagle for that shot

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Abhishek,
I used a 400mm lens with a 1.4x converter. So the focal length was 560mm. Since I was using a 40D camera which has a smaller sensor than a full frame 35mm camera, the crop factor is 1.6. So the focal length is multiplied 1.6 times. So the effective focal length that I was using was 896mm.

We never could dream of such a focal length during the film days.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Udai Bisht]

What a shot! Superb!!

[AB Apana]

Nice portrait, the open beak makes it work. The shadow on the eye is bothersome, but we don't have complete control in wildlife photography.

Apana

[Rahul Parekh]

impressive...very detailed.

I think shadow on the eye gives 3D appearance and eye is looking more sharp & glossy, isn't it?