Good that I posted this image
. Thanks for your thoughts Nilanjanji and Ganesh. Really a revelation in terms of learning as well as different thoughts.
TO Answer your questions - indeed by breaking rules, I meant w.r.t composition and placement of subject in the frame. Some technical insight - when I am on a tele I don't normally enable multi-focus points. I will confess I am a bad action image maker. Me enabling the center focus point in this case is naturally evident but definitely wasn't an accident. IT was a deliberate move. This BSK was hovering in the deserts in the same place for 20 mins and I spent really good time explaining its behavior to my parents who were witnessing the moment for the first time
. They were delighted to watch it hunt a desert mouse.
Having spent 20 mins. First 5 mins I didn't even open my camera bag considering the rarity of the moment - wasn't something I had never witnessed before moment for me. But then after a while , the blue skies and lighting made me wonder - how about a B&W image. Mounted 300 2.8 - no TC used and tried this
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Hope this explains what went behind.
Regarding the scale - indeed I agree with Ganesh. Reference point would really help but in this case it was not intended. Nilanjanji - thanks for those differential thoughts - next time I go out I have a different perspective!