Bird on a stick

[BenBotha]

Canon 7D
Canon 500 F4 x 1.4
F 5.6
1/1600
ISO 400

C & C welcome.
Ben

[Raybel Robles]

This is beautiful! The bird is pin sharp! with a great BG an a nice low light. Only wish the stick was more on focus at the end.

[keith mitchell]

Beautiful pin sharp Kingfisher ,stick might not be the best but that bird certainly makes up for it.

Keith.

[Robert Kimbrell]

A stunning Kingfisher and excellent pose, Background is pleasing. Overall excellent image, although the perch is not ideal.

[gail bisson]

Lovely light, BG and IQ.
I would take a sliver off the top and bottom.
If you are not anti-cloning I would trim off the OOF knob at the tip if the perch ( but not a big issue for me)
Would be very happy to have this in my files,
Gail

[David Salem]

What a sweet shot this is. Love the pose and the feather details are killer. The colors are beautiful especially against that smooth green BG. Great find and capture.

I found the frame a little dark and a hair flat on my monitor. Hope you don't mind as I don't do this to often but I liked this enough that I thought I would play with it a bit.
I increased exposure by a third, bumped up the contrast by 6 points, added 3 more points of saturation and darkened the mids with the levels slider. I then took some off the top to keep more of a 4X3 format and then cloned the branch back so it wasn't so prominent. I think it made this already sweet image pop a bit more. What are your thoughts? Oh, the repost got a bit pixilated but starting from scratch will fix that.

[arash_hazeghi]

lovely pose, details and BG, KF is always a delight and you def. got a nice frame here. I agree with Dave that it looks a bit dark, I would increase exposure by ~1/2 stop but leave the colors as they are.

Well done and TFS

[christopher galeski]

nice one ,good IQ,love the BG,like Daves repost.

[BenBotha]

Thanks for the comments and the suggestions. I agree, the repost does look better and the cloning skill is definitely better than mine.
Ben

[Tobie Schalkwyk]

Beautiful clear shot of one of our most beautiful birds, well done! I love David's enhancements - excluding the increase in saturation.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Ben, lovely Juvie here, and although your OP is a tad 'dark' the colours are spot on. Overall nice and sharp, and comp wise, I would just take a touch off the bottom. Dave's repost works well.