Kingfisher with prey (froglet)

[Jeroen Stel]

Having little time to head out i just went trough some of my older Kingfisher files and came across this one. It is fun watching them catch prey from tiny fish at the start of the nesting period up to large newts and froglets like this one at the end of their nesting period.

greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Canon Eos 1D Mark III
Shutter speed: 1/400 sec
Aperture: F 6.3
Exposure mode: AV
Exposure compensation: +1/3
Flash:no
Flash exposure compensation:
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: AI Focus
ISO: 800
Lens: Canon 600mm F4
Focal length:780 mm
AF mode: Auto Focus
On tripod & Wimberley Head from hide
Levels/Curves/USM/Contrast/Saturation/Noise Ninja/Home stewed Sharpening-mix/ Adobe Photoshop CS5

[Stu Bowie]

Super pose showing off his catch, sharp, and those colours are perfect. Killer BG too.

[Robert Amoruso]

Other then being a little hot on the white patch, looks real good as Stuart mentioned. You might want to play around with the white area to ilk out a bit more detail if it is there.

[Steve Kaluski]

Now those are the images I know and are evocative of Jeroen. :cheers:

Would like to see a larger version of this bird to appreciate the full glory of this lovely bird.

[Tony Whitehead]

Great catch, Jeroen. Good comments above. Lovely soft light and DOF covers the bird well while rendering a lovely BG.

[Brendan Dozier]

I would love to get shots like that one day! Very nice image, pose and comp - and its always a plus when there is some interesting action taking place.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Nice catch. Nice BG too. Agree with above comments.

[Herb Houghton]

Beautiful colors sharpness and BGD, great shot.

[Jim Crosswell]

Sharp image with great colours. I like that you got him with the prey as well.

[RakeshDhareshwar]

Brilliant alert pose . The froglet adds to the image. Love those colours !!