Kingfishers sharing fish

[Jeroen Stel]

Hi Guys,

Have not had much time to post lately as i have been working very hard on a Kingfisher project wich uptill now resulted in around 3000 images.
Here's one i liked of them sharing a meal...

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Canon Eos 1D Mark3
Shutter speed: 1/200 sec
Aperture: F 8
Exposure mode: AV
Exposure compensation: - 1 1/3
Flash:no
Flash exposure compensation: -
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: AI Focus
ISO: 800
Lens: Canon 600mm F4
Focal length:780 mm (incl. crop factor)
AF mode: Auto Focus
On tripod and Wimberley Sidekick from hide
Levels/Curves/USM/Contrast/Saturation/Noise Ninja/Lab-Sharpening

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great capture, I like the details, soft light and the bird flying toward the perch. I only wish for a smoother BG but that doesn't seem to be possible in this setting. Thanks for sharing and good luck with your project!

[Doug Brown]

I like the action you've captured in this photo Jeroen. If I were to do a kingfisher project it would consist of 10 lousy photos taken from a great distance! :) While the BG is a little blotchy, it's easy enough to fix in PS if you want to. I'd love to have an image like this in my portfolio! Thanks for posting!

[David Hemmings]

Love the poses and the colors in this one Jeroen, nice work!

[hans stel]

Very nice picture Jeroen! I like the green BG and the frozen action in this photo. Good luck with your project!

[Mike Lentz]

As always, very nice! I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

[Juan Aragonés]

Very nice action. The blurred wings adds a lot of action to the scene. the Bg works fine to me and the perch is an excellent compliment.

[Kaushik Balakumar]

Excellent moment. I have seen a few images of KFs sharing a fish but those were on stationary perches. This is the first one where the male is in flight delivering the meal !
The blurred wings adds to the action.
Very well executed photograph. Will look forward to see more of ur KF images...
Keep them coming!

[Daniel Cadieux]

I absolutely love that perch!! Neat interaction, and the wing blur really adds to the action.

[Alfred Forns]

Love it Jeroen !!!! Fantastic interaction and catching them both in the same plane of focus !!! Big Congrats !!!

[Fabs Forns]

Great interaction and I love the blurred wings of the male!!! I'd sharpen his eye a little more. What a nice perch, was it set-up?

[Steve Wheeler]

The color, detail and framing are outstanding. The action and interaction is superb. The perch is perfect and the BG bothers me not. Really nicely done...

Steve

[Jay Tan]

Super action. As mentioned by others, the blurred wings really make this image outstanding. Beautiful perch too!

[Nikolay Staykov - shotlandetsa]

fantastic action! great capture! I absolutely love this one. The PP also looks very complex, but it is very good.

[Lance Peters]

Congrats - amazing - very well done

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Jeroen,
I absolutely adore this image. Kingfishers are super subjects, so little, fast and hard to capture. your patience had indeed paid off. Congrats. I cannot find faults to my taste at all.

:)