Indian Cormorant

[Atul Sinai]

Hi,

Please critique this image. Shot along the coast of river mula, Pune.

Canon 600D. 400mm f5.6
Manual Exposure
Manual Focus
Spot metering
Shutter Speed 1/160
Aperture 5.6
ISO 200
Focal Length 400mm
Cropped by 12%
Tripod support

Regards,
Atul

[Atul Sinai]

Loved the image quality of 400mm f5.6 lens. This lens rocks with manual focus, auto-focus is very quick. Have attached 100% crop.

Regards,
Atul

[Mrudul Godbole]

The composition is nice. The clean background looks good. Nicely exposed. On the cropped image, have you done any noise reduction? Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Atul,
Congratulations on the 400 f5.6 L USM lens. It is a very fine lens. Easily handholdable. The quality is good. One can easily see the difference between this lens and the sigma zoom lenses that people use.

Any thing within the range of this lens is good. So try approaching as close as possible for your intended composition. Look forward to more.

By the way, where is this Mula river?

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice Image(Full Photo).Well composed,look,Plumes,longish tail,slight colour difference in forehead plumes and chin all captured well.Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Atul Sinai]

Thanks Mrudul, Sabyasachi and Shaktipada. Mrudul, haven't done any special noise reduction in the 100% cropped image although have done a slight noise reduction for the complete image as a part of the workflow.

Sabyasachi, Mula is a tributary of the Bhima River in Deccan India. It passes through the towns of Pune and Khadki. This river origins from Mulshi Dam near Pune-India. Biologists have recorded 108 species of fish, 102 flowering plant species, 130 bird species in and around the river and surrounding areas.

Regards,
Atul