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Ken Watkins
11-14-2011, 09:19 AM
This Kite was hovering over a small waterhole in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, 8th September 2011.
Full frame in terms of width
EOS iD MkIV
500mm F4 IS hand-held from standing position
F8, ISO 800, 1/2000, EV +0,67
Bill Dix
11-14-2011, 05:04 PM
Great wingspread and head angle, amazingly captured full frame without clipping wingtips. Good detail and exposure. Very nicely done.
Brendan Dozier
11-14-2011, 06:10 PM
Nice FF BIF capture, Ken. Beautiful looking Kite. Like the POV, wingspread and sharp details.
Kaustubh Deshpande
11-14-2011, 06:32 PM
Ken, nice wing spread and HA. tricky situation...usually, you'd add lots of light for such image but that would have blown the bill. I guess you underexposed it a bit and then pulled the shadows...noise is seen...but the other choice would have blown the bill.
gail bisson
11-14-2011, 07:24 PM
Ken,
This is great. Having just returned from Africa and taking about 100 pics of these birds ( and deleting 90) I appreciate the detail very much. It is so hard to expose the browns of this bird so I tip my hat off to you! The IQ and feather detail are awesome. Simply excellent,
Gail
Ken Watkins
11-14-2011, 10:51 PM
Thanks everbody for your kind comments they are much appreciated, the fact that this Kite was hovering helped greatly in getting the exposure right:S3:
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