Belted Kingfisher (female)

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image a while back at Circle B Bar Reserve and have revisited it several times each time trying to do better. The image as show is about 40% of the full frame. The bird while reasonably close when the image was captured is so small that getting more of it to fill the frame would be difficult. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm (600mm FFE)
1/1600 F/5.6 Matrix Metering 0 EV ISO 280
Post processed in Lightroom 5 and Photoshop Elements 10
Cleaned up the eye and a few distracting highlights on the bill, noise reduction to the sky

[Bill Dix]

Tough enough to get these guys sitting still. Nice flight shot with good open wings and open beak.

[Gunjan Puri]

lovely....

[Loi Nguyen]

Hi Joseph, you did well here at 400mm. The crop factor did help. The bird is a little small in the frame, but you had good details and sharpness. Loi

[keith mitchell]

Joe as already mentioned the bird is a little small in the frame but still some very good tail,really caught the hovering pose beautifully.


Keith.