Have not had much time to post lately as i have been working very hard on a Kingfisher project wich uptill now resulted in around 3000 images.
Here's one i liked of them sharing a meal...
Greetings,
Jeroen Stel
Canon Eos 1D Mark3
Shutter speed: 1/200 sec
Aperture: F 8
Exposure mode: AV
Exposure compensation: - 1 1/3
Flash:no
Flash exposure compensation: -
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: AI Focus
ISO: 800
Lens: Canon 600mm F4
Focal length:780 mm (incl. crop factor)
AF mode: Auto Focus
On tripod and Wimberley Sidekick from hide
Levels/Curves/USM/Contrast/Saturation/Noise Ninja/Lab-Sharpening
06-16-2008, 06:21 AM
Axel Hildebrandt
Great capture, I like the details, soft light and the bird flying toward the perch. I only wish for a smoother BG but that doesn't seem to be possible in this setting. Thanks for sharing and good luck with your project!
06-16-2008, 06:50 AM
Doug Brown
I like the action you've captured in this photo Jeroen. If I were to do a kingfisher project it would consist of 10 lousy photos taken from a great distance! :) While the BG is a little blotchy, it's easy enough to fix in PS if you want to. I'd love to have an image like this in my portfolio! Thanks for posting!
06-16-2008, 07:26 AM
David Hemmings
Love the poses and the colors in this one Jeroen, nice work!
06-16-2008, 07:27 AM
hans stel
Very nice picture Jeroen! I like the green BG and the frozen action in this photo. Good luck with your project!
06-16-2008, 07:59 AM
Mike Lentz
As always, very nice! I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
06-16-2008, 08:16 AM
Juan Aragonés
Very nice action. The blurred wings adds a lot of action to the scene. the Bg works fine to me and the perch is an excellent compliment.
06-16-2008, 08:28 AM
Kaushik Balakumar
Excellent moment. I have seen a few images of KFs sharing a fish but those were on stationary perches. This is the first one where the male is in flight delivering the meal !
The blurred wings adds to the action.
Very well executed photograph. Will look forward to see more of ur KF images...
Keep them coming!
06-16-2008, 11:12 AM
Daniel Cadieux
I absolutely love that perch!! Neat interaction, and the wing blur really adds to the action.
06-16-2008, 01:25 PM
Alfred Forns
Love it Jeroen !!!! Fantastic interaction and catching them both in the same plane of focus !!! Big Congrats !!!
06-16-2008, 04:31 PM
Fabs Forns
Great interaction and I love the blurred wings of the male!!! I'd sharpen his eye a little more. What a nice perch, was it set-up?
06-16-2008, 06:45 PM
Steve Wheeler
The color, detail and framing are outstanding. The action and interaction is superb. The perch is perfect and the BG bothers me not. Really nicely done...
Steve
06-17-2008, 12:36 AM
Jay Tan
Super action. As mentioned by others, the blurred wings really make this image outstanding. Beautiful perch too!
06-17-2008, 01:54 AM
Nikolay Staykov - shotlandetsa
fantastic action! great capture! I absolutely love this one. The PP also looks very complex, but it is very good.
06-17-2008, 02:33 AM
Lance Peters
Congrats - amazing - very well done
06-19-2008, 02:16 AM
Ákos Lumnitzer
Jeroen,
I absolutely adore this image. Kingfishers are super subjects, so little, fast and hard to capture. your patience had indeed paid off. Congrats. I cannot find faults to my taste at all.