Little Jewel

[Sudhir Shivaram]

Photographed this backlit common kingfisher during the weekend at a lake in Mysore, South India.

http://www.thejunglelook.com/NSN/800/_MG_7772-Common-Kingfisher.jpg

Canon EF 800mm + 1.4xII on Canon 1D Mark III
ISO 400, 1/160 @ f8, Evaluative Metering -2/3 Stop, Aperture Priority.

Rgds,
Sudhir

[Doug Brown]

Beautiful! Great composition, and the backlighting creates a nice effect. BG is really nice too. Like that in spite of the backlighting, the eye has some life to it.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I think it works! The BG is quite beautiful. I would love to see this bigger, but I have to admit that your frame takes away from the image though...

[Kaushik Balakumar]

Lovely image Sudhir. Liked the rim lighting a lot. Very pleasing composition & what a BG u've got there...
Can notice a little bit of masking halo around the perch (above the brighter areas).

[Ramon M. Casares]

It is different and I liek it very much! Maybe the use of fill flash would've helped bring out some more details but as it is is great! Congratulations!

[Linda Robbins]

You handled this exposure extremely well and the bg is lovely. I am not very fond of backlit images overall, but for me personally backlighting works best where there is interesting texture in fur or feathers. I think I would prefer frontal lighting for this kingfisher. Still, a well-executed shot.