Techs:
Canon 550D, Canon 100-400mm L IS USM
ISO 800, f/8 at 1/500sec
Focal Length: 275mm
Taken from Mankwe Bird Hide in Pilansberg, I was fortunate enough to capture this image of the three pied kingfishers in a row.
Post Processing
Processed in Lightroom (lens correction, sharpen, curves, minor adjustments, black and white, contrast)
Added the branch towards the bottom in Photoshop as the original image was to tight and I felt it needed a little room.
Taken on an overcast day.
I was taking photos of the kingfishers who frequent the branches outside this hide and got lucky that I was facing the right direction and at the right area to capture the three pied kingfishers as they complained at another one which had landed a little below them.
I'm not normally a fan of b&w bird images (except perhaps Black-and-white Warbler) but I have to say this one woks remarkably well. Very artistic, well balanced comp (except that the left-most bird's tail is clipped at the edge), and the simplicity of it all is appealing. If anything I'd probably darken the eyes...the two lower birds especially. Well done!
I love the empty space on the right and the B&W and the three perfect head angles. Wow! Clipping the tail of the left-most bird is a mortal sin.... It could easily be repaired.
All in all, spectacular!
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I LOVE this image, and I wish that we saw more photographers trying this kind of thing (myself included)!!!! I just brought it into PS and cropped from the right. I used the rule of thirds and cropped with the tip of the right bird's beak at the criss-cross on the bottom right. It still leaves you a lot of white/room on the right, just not quite as much Well seen/executed/processed!!!
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) but I have to say this one woks remarkably well. Very artistic, well balanced comp (except that the left-most bird's tail is clipped at the edge), and the simplicity of it all is appealing. If anything I'd probably darken the eyes...the two lower birds especially. Well done!
