Forest Kingfisher

[Richard Mc Donald]

This liitle Kingfisher was a ferocious hunter spending no more than a minute at a time perched looking for prey.
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1DX - 800L f/5.6 - ISO400 - 1/640 - +1EV (was overcast) - Hand held

50% crop and resized - ARC sharpening with custom preset pping.

[Marina Scarr]

What a stunning bird. The whites and blues on it are shimmering. I like the one raised foot and the cobweb. I would burn the perch a little bit. It's so bright that it does tend to draw attention away from your bird. You have a lovely BG here. I wonder what your original image looked like b/c I am wondering what your cropping options were. It's not that I do not like this one, but I have a feeling there may be a better crop available. Well done.

[Munish Kaushik]

Beautiful Perch, Light, bkgr & inquisitive pose of the bird. The perch is a tad bright for my taste, I would have tried to tone it down in the post.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I like the way it is looking down into the water scanning for prey. Neat perch, albeit a bit light as pointed out, and you have a wonderful BG. I could see this as a true vertical, but like Marinaq mentions there are probably a few options for it.

[Karl Egressy]

I love Kingfishers and this is a very nice one. Nice pose and perch and excellent details in the white and dark as well.

[gail bisson]

Gorgeous bird.
I like the spider web and the vertical comp.
Great BG and agree with all of Marina's suggestions!
Gail

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Wonderful capture! I would have liked to see this with a larger aspect ratio, possibly with more room at the bottom and the bird closet to the top - taking a bit off the left.

[MohsenVahedipour]

What lovely species! I like the perch, BG & pose. Agree with above comments about the composition.

[Richard Mc Donald]

Here's the original resized so heaps of room for any crop that takes your fancy.

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Richard

[Marina Scarr]

Holy cow can that 1DX handle a crop!!! On cell phone for long weekend will try to take a stab at a few crops when I get home.

[Ofer Levy]

OMG !!! I could have never guessed this is such a HUGE crop! The 1DX looks like an amazing device!!

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Wow, what a crop! I'm amazed at the detail!

[Jonathan Ashton]

Very nice image good detail and colours.

[Frank Schauf]

Excellent pose and details, Richard.

[Richard Mc Donald]

And that's why Marina people need to move on from worrying about going to full frame from a 1.3 copped sensor, if your gears up to it it's not a problem.


Richard


Holy cow can that 1DX handle a crop!!! On cell phone for long weekend will try to take a stab at a few crops when I get home.

[Ken Watkins]

Richard,
You could never have guessed that this was such a gigantic crop, the OP is of amazing quality!

Hope mine works as well as yours:w3

[Marina Scarr]

This is the crop I find most appealing for this particular capture. I was unable to do a good job with sharpening though.