Common Cubetail with flies

[Atul Sinai]

Hi guys,

Please critique this image. Shot this one in Pune.

Canon 600D. 55-250mm
Manual Exposure
Spot metering
Shutter Speed 1/500
Aperture 9.0
ISO 400
Focal Length 250mm
Cropped by 61%
Monopod support

Regards,
Atul

[Aroon Kalandy]

Wonderful.........
Small fly like thins enhance the image......

[Joshi Bhavya]

HI Atul.. Nice composition.. Like the details on wings.. but head part I think Its out of focus..You should try to focus more head part.. for better image..

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Interesting image with two flies on its head. What was it doing? Was it just perched for a long time?

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Atul Sinai]

Thanks guys. It perched for around 4 mins. I guess it probably landed with flies on it. There were around 7 flies troubling it. The cubetail was trying to get them off. After taking some images, I wanted to take a recording to capture the action, but unfortunately it flew off by then. Suprisingly the flies apeared to be hanging on to it.


Regards,
Atul

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Very nice record. Never seen this happening. I agree with Bhavya about the focus. Thanks for sharing.
PS- I think you have made a typo, it is "clubtail" (a reference to the unusual shape of the tail), not "cubetail".