Pond Heron in flight

[Atul Sinai]

The pond heron had taken off from the ground level and was approaching a higher perch.

Please critique
Location: Pune
Canon 7D. 400mm f5.6
Manual Exposure
Auto Focus
Manual metering
Shutter Speed 1/1000
Aperture 5.6
ISO 400
Focal Length 400mm
Cropped by 9%
Handheld

Thanks!

Regards,
Atul

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Looks like one of those super heroes with their long robe spreading out when they land . Nice image and lovely wingspread. Wish you were more to the right or the bird had turned a bit more towards you, would have helped in getting the left wing in focus too. Thanks for sharing.

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice flight pose. The wing spread looks nice. The whites are well exposed. Maybe using a higher ISO and a narrower aperture would have helped to get more DoF. The eye contact is nice. Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Left wing not being in focus is a depth of filed issue. One stop narrow aperture would have been better here, however that would have required pushing up the ISO. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Atul Sinai]

Thanks guys.
Agree regarding the use of narrower aperture here. F8 with ISO 640 would have certainly helped. The action was quick leaving very little time for setting change. I needed to anticipate the situation much earlier than I did on this occasion.