Peacock

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Shot this at Ranthambore...

Camera Model Canon EOS 40D
Shooting Date/Time 10/18/2009 8:29:58 AM
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/400
Av( Aperture Value ) 5.6
ISO Speed 800
Lens EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
Focal Length 400.0 mm

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice composition. Liked the colours and the details. Seems the light was quite bad. There is a slight hint of legs at the right corner, thinking if you should crop that. Thanks for sharing.

[Bibhav Behera]

The sharpness is fine. The colours look good. I like the catchlight in the eye.

I would have preferred a rectangular (2:3) crop here rather than a squarish crop. The curved out of focus branch behind its head is a bit distracting. Noise is visible due to ISO 800. The shutter speed was at 1/400 so you could have safely decreased the ISO to 400 and got 1/200 shutter speed which in my opinion would have been sufficient.

A good attempt nevertheless... Thanks for sharing...

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I would consider cropping from the right. I agree that the out of focus branch is a bit of distraction especially since it passes behind the head. When I had started photographing the first challenge was to get a sharp photo. :D Once I got a hang of exposure, I started looking at these distractions etc to get a pleasing image. We try to move the vehicle to a place where we anticipate the animal to be and which is likely to give a pleasing composition. Most often people fail to do that and later on resort to cloning.

It is better if we ask ourselves the questions: Why am I clicking? What am I trying to portray or showcase? If we ask ourselves atleast these two questions before pressing the shutter, then we wont be deleting or cloning images later.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

SHarp image and nice colours. Agree abt the noise. Also agree abt going for a rectangular crop. Personally I would prefer to leave a space of abt 2/3rds of the image length in front of the peacock.