The Beauty Of Western Ghats.........

[Ritesh Nangare]

Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher,(The Female Bird)
Konkan,

This Monsoon Season is dedicated to ODKF only done lot of travle almost 4000+ to get him and done almost 15000+ image of ODKF only .....what joy to watch this bird. Truly magnificent Bird to watch and document all his moments and action.....

The Photograph is crop to 20% of the full frame that's why the noise is visible in the details .
Camera:-Canon EOS-1D X
Lens:-Canon 500mm
Focal Length:-500mm
Shutter Speed:-1/30 secs
Aperture:_f/6.3
ISO:-2000
ENJOY........

[Jerry van Dijk]

Hi Ritesh, this is indeed a magnificent bird. I love the colors, clean BG and the eye contact. It seems you captured enough detail to be able to apply some NR without the IQ suffering too much. Maybe worth a try.

[Daniel Cadieux]

The HA, colours, prey item in the bill all look great. You mention the noise because of your large crop, and I agree (and the details also have a "coarse" look to them due to it)...I'm wondering if a looser presentation would be worth it here, especially if your un-cropped file has no distractions outside the current framing.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Very nice KF, light and crop. Ditto Daniel's idea regarding a looser compostion. Very colourful indeed.