Colourful Lineup

[Morkel Erasmus]

Here's another one from the world-class hides at Zimanga Private Game Reserve in northern KZN in South Africa. You're going to have a hard time getting to photograph some of these elusive small species out on a normal birding trip.

From left to right:
Blue Waxbill, 2x Jameson's Firefinch, Blue Waxbill, Yellow-fronted Canary

Techs:
Nikon D3s
Nikkor 500mm f4 VR-II
f6.3 | 1/1250 SS | ISO-5600
Low light and you lose a stop of light shooting through specialised 1-way glass (with no realisable loss of sharpness though)...DOF is limited for longer lenses as you are 5m from the water's edge.

[arash_hazeghi]

lovely color palette and BG Morkel. only one bird appears to be in sharpest focus though and the OOF ones will hold the image back. If this is a setup I would recommend photographing in brighter light so you can stop down to something like f/16 or use a shorter lens to get more of them in focus.

TFS

[Dvir Barkay]

Very nice Morkel, love the colors and the bird variation. Two nits are Arash suggestion that the first thing that I noticed, F/11+ would have helped. Also wish the Canary on the right looked into the image and not out. That said, great shot.

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Morkel - interesting to see the different birds lined up and nice colors. Agree with the points Arash made. Any more room below to give the canary's reflection a bit more room?

TFS,
Rachel

[keith mitchell]

Morkel it looks like a great set up with all these different species ,like the flying droplets, bet it's a great place to be.

Keith.

[Joe Senzatimore]

Different , and very well done. Great idea.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Mork, excellent eye level perspective, and great to get a variety of birds all in one image/shot. Love the waxbill on the left enjoying his dip.

[Marina Scarr]

THis is such a fun image, Morkel. I think it works well and has all kinds of interest despite all birds being sharp.