Kingfisher at dawn.

Taken with 40D, 300mm f4.0 IS, ISO 500, 1/1000, f/5,6, monopod and 3D camouflage. Some crop and BG smart blur.<o></o><o></o><o></o>
All critiques and comments are welcome. <o></o><o></o>

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Love the pose and the matching two-tone background. Greta shot, Svetoslav.

Nice pose background colors and really nice warm light.

I'm torn on how I would like to see the background changed. I don't care for the way the split in the background tonalities goes right across the neck of the bird, but yet I think the colors add to the photo.

I'm thinking rather than changing position to get the bird on one color, just a slight change to get the transition a bit lower might have helped.

All in all, I'd love to have this one in my portfolio.

Nice posture and great soft light! I don't mind the two tone background, in fact I think it complements the colours in the bird. Personally I would have taken a bit more off the top of the image, to have more of a pano crop.

I really like this image I would however like to see more of the perch its on.


Steve.