Southern Carmine Bee-eater

[Marc Mol]

Southern Carmine Bee-eater on the banks of the Luangwa River- Sth Luangwa NP- Zambia Sept '07

D2Xs 300f/2.8VR 1/1000s ISO220@f/2.8 almost F/F

C & C most welcome

Cheers
Marc

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[Sudhanshu Nafde]

wow... fantastic colors... I loved the colors of this bee eater... i saw this for first time.... and now i am in love with it...

[Danny J Brown]

I agree with Sudhanshu - these birds keep making up new colors I've never seen before, especially the bee eaters. Great close-up Marc, and very sharp with a perfect, blue background.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Colors, angle and sharpness look very good. The highlights could go darker for my taste and I might have stopped down more to have the beak in focus, too. Was the original overexposed?

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Colourful bird. I like the low angle. I agree with Axel regarding the use of a narrow aperture. It is great that you got it nearly full frame. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Morkel Erasmus]

lovely detail you got with the FF image Marc. super colours and agree with Axel's points.

[Stu Bowie]

Well exposed colours Marc, and I like the sharpness. Comp works well, and a great close up.

[Lorant Voros]

Beautiful bird and colors. It is nice and sharp too. It maybe needs some CCW rotation? Agree with toning down the highlights. Congratulations.

[Marc Mol]

Appreciate the comments guys.


Colors, angle and sharpness look very good. The highlights could go darker for my taste and I might have stopped down more to have the beak in focus, too. Was the original overexposed?
Thanks Axel
The exposure was spot on Axel, did show some very minor clipping on the lower breast area, used the recovery slider on this area. Perhaps could have used a touch more?
Could have used some more DOF of course.


Beautiful bird and colors. It is nice and sharp too. It maybe needs some CCW rotation? Agree with toning down the highlights. Congratulations.
Thanks Lorant
No CCW needed as the riverbank was simply at an angle to my lens.;)

[tiziano cei]

never seen before,great shot!



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[Bryan Hix]

Beautiful colors and I like the comp. Would like to see what it would look like with Axel's suggestions. Very nice.