Lesser Kestrel (female)

[Prashant Jois]

Canon 7D + 100-400mm lens
11-12-2011 @ 2:19 pm
Aperture-Priority AE
Tv 1/320
Av 8
Evaluative metering
EC +2/3
ISO 200
Fl 400mm
Cropped for composition (left side of the image is taken out). Thanks for viewing and please do pass on your C&C.

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice compo. guess u can reduce the sharpening and brightness a bit.

TFS
Roopak

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Prashant,
The perch is good. where was the focus point? Did you originally shoot in horizontal composition and then crop to vertical?

Moving to the right side to get its left eye - which is in the Sun - in the image would have been even better. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Mrudul Godbole]

The vertical composition is nice. You could have moved the camera a bit down to add some more space at the bottom. I think a horizontal composition would also have worked with more space on the right. Agree about the sharpening. Thanks for sharing.

[Prashant Jois]

BTW I was corrected on the Id on INW.

Roopak & Mrudul,

Thanks for your suggestion. I will try to correct it and see if I can upload the updated image.

Sabyasachiji,

The focus point is right at the center of the head (I mean b/w the right eye and beak). Yes, you are absolutely right about the shooting and cropping composition. Yes, I agree with you about the position as well.