oriental dwarf kingfisher

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Welcome to BPN, Niranjan! Very nice first post, I like the soft light, eye contact, BG and the lizard adds a lot to it. I would sharpen the bird and prey and tone down the highlights a bit. Keep them coming!

Wow, what a cool bird and a great capture. If I have to offer any critique it would be to slightly tone down the highlights.

Love the sharpness, the fine details, the color, the pose and the lizard is a big bonus. Really like how the lizard is upside down with eye close and feet up, very prey like pose. Might run a round of NR on the background and just wish that the tip of the tail of the lizard is not behind the perch.

Niranjan-bhai,

A huge welcome and thanks for posting this amazing capture. The colors of the bird are amazing as is the size of the lizard. I love the head angle and the fact that the bird's tail is on the "right" side of the perch.

And thanks a ton for your membership support.

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excellent image, and welcome to the forum... I did a little burning, and slight sharpening to your fine image, hope you do not mind.

Nicely done Ray;excellent work. It is a big improvement but I would like the BKGR a tad lighter. Thanks for making the effort.

Niranjan, what a beautiful image, love the colors and of course, the prey. Looking forward to more of your images. Ray's repost looks great to me.

Repost is much better.. Killer colors and a snack is always a plus !

Welcome,
Lou

Great, I don't know if I like more the bird or the lizard. The repost is exellent.

Great shot of an amazing looking bird. Love the colours. Fantastic pose with the lizard. Excellent work Niranjan
Very good job on the repost Ray.

Joe

Incredible India .... Incredible Kingfisher ..... Incredible picture .... I love it :)

Welcome Niranjan - I can't remember when I've seen such an awesome first post. Raymond's extra minute or two took it over the top - it definitely needed a little sharpening. You'll get used to the technique of sharpening these little 200 KB's pretty quick. Well done.

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Welcome to BPN - looking forward to seeing more such excellent images.
Took Ray's repost and changed the composition and some brightening. Also cloned out the extra chatchlights. Please let me know your thoughts.
Cheers,
Ofer ;)

Niranjanbhai
Big welocme to BPN and one amazing image to start with , lovely HA , BG , perch and Lizard too:D
IMHO all three post dont have the ELECTRIC color which ODKF posses , Looks dull to me
TFS

Big welcome!

Very nice repost by two great photographers, in this case, I would like to see Ofer's repost with the saturation boost of Raymond's repost.

A stunning bird and the extra meal makes this one a winner.

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superb image and bird i think this ones gonna be the image of the week

hey big thank you guys for your kind words and great suggestions. i am very very bad at post processing,but with your suggestions,hope i will improve over a period of time.
thank you ray for showing me how the picture should look.
warm regards and happy new year to you all
niranjan

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No worries mate, we will have to agree to disagree on this one. In my vertical repost there is less of the perch and also I feel composition is much more balanced than in the original and in your repost.;)
I do agree with you that colours look great. The "electric effect" is dependant on the angle in which the light hits the bird.

Big welcome,Great Start Bhai.. keep those beauties coming...

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Niranjanbhai Big welocme to BPN and one amazing image to start with , lovely HA , BG , perch and Lizard too:D IMHO all three post dont have the ELECTRIC color which ODKF posses , Looks dull to me
TFS

If those are dull I would need dark sunglasses to view this bird in life!

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If those are dull I would need dark sunglasses to view this bird in life!

You trust me or not , ODKF colors are very electric and I am sure about it

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No worries mate, we will have to agree to disagree on this one. In my vertical repost there is less of the perch and also I feel composition is much more balanced than in the original and in your repost.;)
I do agree with you that colours look great. The "electric effect" is dependant on the angle in which the light hits the bird.

cool, if we always agreed on everything, life would be a rather boring experience eh?

I would sure like to see these colours first hand., meet me in India!

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hey big thank you guys for your kind words and great suggestions. i am very very bad at post processing,but with your suggestions,hope i will improve over a period of time.
thank you ray for showing me how the picture should look.
warm regards and happy new year to you all
niranjan

your welcome... you have lots of time to learn processing, but in the mean time, collecting superb images like this is a great sport!

Also, how this image "should look" is a matter of opinion always, Ofer's post is excellent, we all share ideas, to help each other grow, and develop our own style., this is the fun of forums.

Lovely bird, lovely image. Prey item is a big bonus. Really like Raymond's re-post, but I agree the background could be a tad lighter.

Niranjan....big welcome. I have always liked this shot....must say it is one of my favourtie images of yours. The skink takes it over the top....the head being upside down conveys the feeling of defeat.