Coppersmith Barbet

[harikamal]

Taken near a feeder sitting in hide.
EXIF
camera model nikon d7100
lens Nikon 300mm f/4E PF ED VR + 1.4TCEII
date time of original 2015:10:20 16:30:17
aperture number 5.6
exposure compensation 0 ev
exposure time 1/1600 s
iso 800
focal length 420 mm
exposure metering mode averaged center
exposure program aperture priority
156566

C&C Welcome
Kamal
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[Lorant Voros]

What a bird!. Beautiful colors, matching BG, good body and head angle and parallel to censor perch. Nice work over all.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Beautiful feather patterns and colors. Nice soft light and great detail. Well done.




Geoffrey

[Bill Dix]

A beautiful bird, spectacular colors, great detail. Nice perch and bg. Nothing not to like here.

[Gabriela Plesea]

Hello Kamal:wave:

I wanted to greet you by saying " Welcome to BPN", but noticed you have been around since 2012. Glad to see you posting, beautiful avian specimen and so colourful! I had a look at your website and saw your recent works, by the way.

Lovely composition and I really like the head angle from the bird. Those "whiskers" are so cute.

Not easy for me to comment on colours, this is the first time I see this species, but your Coppersmith looks much more striking than our Crested and Blackcollared Barbets here in South Africa. Detail is good, you could open the blacks a bit more if you like.

Wonderful work, I do hope you post some more, thank you so much for sharing!

Kind regards,

[Ross Taylor]

Stunning in every respect! First time I see whiskers on a bird ... cool!

TFS,
Ross

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the pose, perch, colorful bird, whiskers, sharpness, details and complimentary BG. I see some repeating patterns on the perch in front of the bird. Beautiful image Kamal!

[William Dickson]

Lovely pose, HA and comp. Very nice lighting and colours. I agree with Gabriela about the blacks. Good work

Will

[harikamal]

You are correct Jim; I had to clone out some distracting elements on the perch in front. but I could have done it better

[harikamal]

Hi Gabriela,

Thank you.. Im not new to posting here in this forum. Somehow I messed up with my original account here with which I was posting in BPN "Kamal Hari Menon". So I had to revive this old account .

Hello Kamal:wave:

I wanted to greet you by saying " Welcome to BPN", but noticed you have been around since 2012. Glad to see you posting, beautiful avian specimen and so colourful! I had a look at your website and saw your recent works, by the way.

Lovely composition and I really like the head angle from the bird. Those "whiskers" are so cute.

Not easy for me to comment on colours, this is the first time I see this species, but your Coppersmith looks much more striking than our Crested and Blackcollared Barbets here in South Africa. Detail is good, you could open the blacks a bit more if you like.

Wonderful work, I do hope you post some more, thank you so much for sharing!

Kind regards,

[Daniel Cadieux]

Very nice! Apart from the cloning everything looks really good. Perhaps a touch brighter would work, but fantastic overall. Is this bird a fruit eater?

[keith mitchell]

You could not have got a better BG to set this fine looking bird on,excellent piece of work.

[Colin Driscoll]

Very good, I tried unsuccessfully to get a decent shot of this bird when I was in India a couple of years ago. Interesting call too.