Malachite King Fisher, Tarangire

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This is my first image posted from Africa. We are on a 16 day safari in Kenya and Tazania. I did not have many bird images, but of the few that I got, they are almost full frame. Taken from a safari vehicle.

1DX
500f4 II + 1.4X III
1/500
f5.6
ISO-400
Manual Exposure
Evalutive Metering, 0 EV
BLUBB bean bag
Removed one distracting branch.

We still have 2 more days, so appreciate your feedback.

Thank you!

Loi

Hi Loi, great sighting, and nicely in the open. The pose shows off the colours very well, and against a good smooth BG. If you have already removed a distracting branch, I would remove the lower one too.

Im afraid this is not a Malachite, but a Grey headed kingfisher. :w3

Excellent light & IQ. Great BG. Wish for a version without that OOF branch.

Wonderful portrait of this kingfisher, Loi. How awesome that it's (almost) full frame. The background colors are very nice, the light is soft, and you have great detail. I see what people mean about the out of focus branch, but it doesn't bother me all that much.

Beautiful detail and BG. The OOF branch isn't a problem for me, but easy enough to remove so I probably would if it were mine.

The in-focus areas (head and near part of the perch) look a little over-sharpened to me.

Have a great rest of the trip!

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Thank you all for your comments and feedback.

As regard to the OOF branh, normally I'd not remove branches, but you are right, once I removed one branch, I should just remove the OOF one as well.

Diane, agreed with you that the image was overhapened. The original was pretty sharp, so when I applied my normal sharpeningparameters, it beame overshapened. Here in the RP, I knocked the sharpening way down. Hope you like it better.

Stuart, thanks for pointing out that this is a Grey Headed King Fisher, not a Malachite.

Loi

I really like your repost. Well done

Hi Loi, I will echo all the positive comments above. Really like the repost with the oof branch removed. - Allen

Excellent details, love the perch, great pose, very nice background, and nice light.

Excellent image of kingfisher with beautiful colors and great details.
Love the pose,colors, perch and beautiful composition in re post.

Regards,
Satish.

lovely portrait Loi. I too prefer the repost. Details, pose, perch, colors & BG looks great.
Hope to see many more from your Africa visit.

Excellent pose,perch,colors and beautiful composition .

Very nice repost Loi. I think removing the OOF branch and less sharpening makes the image stronger. Enjoy the rest of your trip and will be looking forward to seeing more!

Loi, the repost does it for me!

Loi a nice image , the RP enhances the already lovely image
the details are nice, sweet BG and a good looking Kingfisher

excellent pose and details, nice BG. I like the repost but it shows some clone artifacts that should be easy to remove.

Repost is awesome except a few spots that can be easily fixed.

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Thanks again everyone for your comments. I cleaned up the image a little bit and cropped a little tighter as well. I'm back late last night and will need to catch up. There have been so many excellent images posted here the past 3 weeks!!!

Loi