Ultramarine Flycatcher - Adult Male

[Rohan Kamath]

Hi Guys,

Species:- Ultramarine Flycatcher - Adult Male
Date:- 8th December, 2010

1/320 sec, f/6.3, ISO 1600, EC 0 @ 400mm
Partial Metering, Handheld.

Canon EOS 40D,
Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM

This is a bird that sticks to small pools of water on the forest floor. The dense canopy makes sure that there is almost never any light to work with so I had to push my camera to ISO 1600 here. Also, this species is active just before dawn and seems to disappear with the rising sun, so that presents even more of a challenge.

Self Critique:- I wish I'd got the entire feet in the frame here but he came so suddenly along with 2 young ones that the slightly movement on my part would have frightened them off.

All C&C welcome and much appreciated.
Thanks for your valuable time. Appreciate it.


-Regards,
Rohan
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[Randy Stout]

Rohan:

Lovely color, with complimentary colors in BG. Neat catchlight. Sharp. Noise remarkably good for this ISO. Can see some in the shadows, but not objectionable.
Did you need to run noise reduction?

I might consider cropping 1/3 of the free space above the bird away.

Good work under challenging conditions.

[Rohan Kamath]

@Randy

I did run a round of Noise Reduction(strength 5) on the BG. Thanks for the cropping advice. I'll just re-work that and re-post.


-Regards,
Rohan
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Conservation begins at HOME... We CAN make a difference...

[Rohan Kamath]

Repost with crop as per Randy's suggestion. Hope its better.

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[Paul Randall]

Really nice Rohan, love the colours. I can't see your repost (not sure why:confused:) but I do agree with Randy's crop suggestion. Could also go just a touch brighter I think.

[Rohan Kamath]

@Paul
I too have no idea why the re-post isn't showing. It was fine a few hours ago. Thanks for pointing it out. Here is a link to the re-post. Very sorry for the inconvenience.

-Regards,
Rohan
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