Paddyfield Pipit

[Dr. Kalpamoi Kakati]

Location-Namrup,Assam
Canon 500D
150-500mm
1/160
f/8
ISO 400
Handheld
Cropped

[Bhargava Srivari]

Nice pose..the ruffled feathers look good. Have you done any special processing- there is a darker green patch just behind the tail. Also, there seems to be luminamce channel noise..you can try to use neat image for NR..if one can figure out the optimal settings, it is the most effective NR software!

tfs

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice perch and eye contact. The ruffled feathers adds to the image. A higher shutter speed would have been good. You could have used f6.3 or f7.1 to give a bit more shutter speed or increasing the ISO would have helped. Agree about the green patch. Wish the out of focus stalk in the background was not present. Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Have you done any special processing- there is a darker green patch just behind the tail. Also, there seems to be luminamce channel noise..

Agree with the previous comments. It is a good practice to mention, if there is any processing other than levels and curves and involves multiple layers, cloning etc etc.

Without the out of focus bright stick passing in the background just infront of the bird, it would have been great.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Dr. Kalpamoi Kakati]

Agree with the previous comments. It is a good practice to mention, if there is any processing other than levels and curves and involves multiple layers, cloning etc etc.

Without the out of focus bright stick passing in the background just infront of the bird, it would have been great.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

Sorry ,I forgot to mention that the image was processed in multiple layers.Correction was done only to the subject including level,curves,some sharpening.I didn't notice the patch earlier,otherwise It could have been removed easily with healing brush after applying a layer mask .Agree about the OOF branch in the BG,couldn't avoid that as by the time I got out of the car ,the bird flew off .Thanks