Belted Kingfisher Inflight

[Juan Tolentino]

This image was taken at my local lake in Miami Lakes Florida with the Nikon D500 (crop sensor) and AF-S Nikkor 200-500mm 1-5.6E ED VR
ISO 400
f5.6
1/2000
500mm
Manual Mode
Processed in LR and PS.
Crop around 60%

All C & C's will be greatly appreciated.


Thanks for looking

JT

[arash_hazeghi]

nice flight Frame Juan, as posted the KF is a bit soft though

TFS

[Joe Subolefsky]

Cool shot maybe a tad dark except for the neck collar and the bird could use another round of sharpening.

[Juan Tolentino]

Thank you Arash and Joe...I lighten up the darks sections of the bird a little and moved the Smart Sharpen radius slide from 0.3 to 0.5 in PS. Please let me know what you think (Looks like I need to do something either with my monitor or with my eyes..LOL) I hope it looks better.

Question: Better to do what I did, meaning move the radius from 0.3 to 0.5 and redo the sharpening, or just do another round with the radius in 0.2 ? Will both methods have the same results?

Thanks again

[Bill Dix]

Tough little devils to catch in flight. Good flight pose. The repost is an improvement. Bit of sharpening halo -- when you select the bird for sharpening, make sure to feather the selection.

[Juan Tolentino]

Thank you for the great advice Bill